I think we all did have the world by the tail in those days Joe.. I loved Fort Wolters.
Joe P.Patterson
21-May-2010 00:32
I was stationed at Wolters AFB from Sep 1953 till Jan 1955 after returning from Korea. I was a Staff Sergeant with the USAF element then assigned to Wolters. We also had multiple US Army troops (Engineer units then known as SCARWAF) who were assigned to the USAF for construction projects scattered all over the world. Being from Oklahoma and having lived in Texas for 7 years, being posted at Wolters was like coming home. Being there was so good that I seriously considered re-enlisting, but reality set in and I realized that the gravy train would probably end in a year or two if not sooner. My new wife and I spent a couple of hours wandering over the base in the fall of 1968. I even went in my old quarters (the new, in 1953, stone block structure perched on the hill near the chapel) and made use of the latrine. Ah, memories. How many times did I oversee the cleaning of that latrine on Friday nights during "GI parties" prior to the Saturday morning inspections. I was the "Bay Chief" of the bottom floor of that fine living facility. It had originally been constructed for use as a BOQ but for some reason it was opened as the living quarters/orderly room/Squadron CO office/Supply Room for the HQ Squadron of the Aviation Engineer Force. Those were good days, indeed, for me. A 22 year old Staff Sergeant, making the fabulous sum of 140 bucks a month. I thought I had the world by the tail and you wanta know something, maybe I did.
