Julius Eugene Driver
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His military career beganwith basic training in San Antonio, Texas and then Chanute Air Force Base inRantoul, Illinois where he was assigned to air craft weld-men school thatlasted for nine months. He was then shipped to Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks,Alaska for two years and then went on to training command for crash rescue andfire department in Sacramento, California. He had 90 days to get back into theAir Force from his initial discharge to decide to get back into the militarywith the same ranking and pay. He decided to re-enlist in the Air Force and wasable to regain his previous rank. He went to Shaw Air Force Base in SouthCarolina for six months. While at Shaw Air Force Base, he received a letterfrom a fake organization, 1007th Air Intelligence Service Group in Washington,District of Columbia, Pentagon. At the time he had no idea it was a fakeorganization, so he joined and completed certain projects for the CIA (CentralIntelligence Agency). These projects eventually broke up and he was stationedin a variety of Air Force Bases over the next few years. The Drivers went toEdwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California; Dobbins Air Force Base, nearAtlanta, Georgia; Williams Air Force Base in Arizona; Bethel Air Force Stationin Fairbanks, Alaska; and a base in Buxton, Mississippi. Driver was in chargeof an auxiliary field while in Arizona where he trained pilots. In Alaska,Driver checked on Siberia through radar called White Alice Air Force Station.While in Mississippi, Driver was a training instructor for basic training.Driver was sent to Vietnam from in 1967 and was there until 1968. AfterVietnam, Driver and his family then moved to Japan where he was stationed at anAir Force Base for only a little bit of time.
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I was rotating back aftermy year I had spent in Vietnam. And we took off at a little Air Base, Bentoweeand we stopped at a little Army outpost; from there we picked up two soldiers,was in the C123. Got up there, and you got to really pull up on that runway, ifyou don’t Charlie is going to get you. He can get you with a 20 caliber machinegun. And we didn’t pull up enough and we heard it [makes gun noise] andhydraulic fluid flying everywhere and all of this stuff. “May day, may day” youdon’t want to hear that. That means were going down and we had two captains. Acaptain for the co-pilot and the captain. He was a caption also for the pilotof the ship. We had nine people on board. We had just picked up those twosoldiers and we were going to Chanute Air Force Base — I mean, what’s the name-Tan Son Nhut? That’s the big Air Base in Vietnam. We were going back there forprocessing. I was fixing to leave. When you hear that May Day, May Day, itstarted shaking, we’re losing control, that pilot went around and I don’t knowhow in the world he did it. But we landed back down on that little air field.And that plane hit and it bounced up. The section went off and all of thisother stuff and we skidded down the runway. All nine of us walked away. He saidbullets were coming in between the seats in there. It wasn’t my time to go. Allnine of us walked away. I mean we were shook up and adrenaline everywhere.
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