AFSC 20331-MD, Vietnamese linguist. Monitored VC and NVN ground and air communications. 37 weeks of language school in Washington, D.C., followed by 16 weeks of technical training at Goodfellow AFB, San Angelo, Texas. Nine months at NKP; which means I went to school 53 weeks to learn a job that I did for only 36 weeks.

Before I left NKP, I was offered the opportunity to go back to tech school and cross-train into the AFSC of my choice (provided, of course, I extended my enlistment) or let the AF do as it wished. I rolled the dice and came up with an OJT assignment to Fort Meade, Maryland, as a 70230, administrative specialist. I got to Meade, and they were overrun with 702s. They temporarily put me to work in the Office of Information, doing the work of a 79130, information specialist, but made me do the OJT and the correspondence course for administrative specialist. I took the 791 course on my own. "Temporarily" turned out to be two years.

So, when I was discharged in '77, I was a former 203 assigned as a 702 doing the work of a 791.

Les Weatherford, NKP, '75
6908th Security Squadron (USAFSS)