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- Collection: UCF Community Veterans History Project Collection
Oral History of Sharon L. Ekern
Tags: A1; advanced training; Albany, Georgia; assistant director of purchasing; basic training; boot campRemoves; Camp H. M. Smith; Camp Lejeune; cold war; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; contracting and purchasing; CVHP; Denver, Colorado; Desert Storm; E-5; Ekern, Sharon L.; Enlisted Rank 5; expert marksman; expert marksmen; First Persian Gulf War; Hawaii; Jacksonville, North Carolina; Lowry AFB; Lowry Air Force Base; M16; Marine Corps Ball; Marine Corps Recruit Depot; Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island; Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego; marines; McKinney, Roy; MCRD; MCRD Parris Island; MCRD San Diego; MEPs; Military Entrance Processing Command; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Parris Island, South Carolina; physical training; PT; Roy McKinney; San Diego, California; Seargant; servicewoman; sexual harassment; sexual misconduct; Sharon L. Ekern; Staff Sergeant Selectee; Student Development and Enrollment Service; Tailhook Scandal; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Marine Corps; UCF; University of Central Florida; USAF; USMC; veteran; veterans; woman; women
Oral History of Lawrence Paul Levine
Tags: accounting; advanced training; Airframe Repair School; airframe repair specialists; airframe repairman; airframe repairmen; airplanes; Amarill, Texas; Amarillo AFB; Amarillo Air Force Base; anti-war movement; basic training; Boeing 707; Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker; Brown University; BU; Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; Burlington County, New Jersey; C-141 Galaxy; colorblindness; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; Custom Service; CVHP; Detachment 51; draft board; draft lottery; drafts; education; enlistment; Europe; F-101; F-105; F-4; fast food restaurants; fiber glassing; fiberglass; firearms; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; G.I. Bill; Germany; Good Conduct Medal; gun ranges; guns; instructors; Ishihara Color Test; jet; jet fighter; jets; KC-135; Lackland AFB; Lackland Air Force Base; Larry Levine; Lawrence Paul Levin; marching; marriages; Mary Hughes Young; McDonald's; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II; McDonnell F-101 Voodoo; Mcguire AFB; Mcguire Air Force Base; metal; military draft; military education; military training; pacifism; pacifists; peace movement; phantom jets; planes; protests; Providence, Rhode Island; pylon; Republic F-105 Thunderchief; Rhein-Main AB; Rhein-Main Air Base; RIT; riveting; Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Selective Service System; Sergeant; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; Shaw AFB; Shaw Air Force Base; sheet metal; Staff Sergeant; Sumter, South Carolina; TDY; temporary duty; The Platters; TI; training; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Air Force in Europe; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Corps; U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; U.S. Customs Service; United Service Organization; USAFE; USO; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Marc Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan; Air Crew School; Anti-Submarine Warfare; Arthur Fonzaerlli; ASW; Australia; Australian Special Forces; Aviation Systems Operator; Aviation Warfare Sensor Operator; AW; Ayase, Japan; Cannes International Film Festival; Cannes, France; co-ed; co-educational; Community Veterans History Project; Competition Week; Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center; Corry Station NTTC; CVHP; desk-top simulators; dogs; education; Electronic Warfare; enlistment; Equator; EW; fleet replacement squadron aircrews; Fonzie; Gibson; Glass, Jonathan; Global War on Terror; graduations; Gulf Breeze; GWOT; Harold Lavine; Helicopter Squadron 1; Helicopter Squadron 14; Helicopter Squadron 5; helicopters; Henry Franklin Winkler; Henry Winkler; HS-1; HS-14; HS-5; humanitarian aid; inspections; instructors; Jonathan Glass; Jones, John Paul; Kendra Hazen; Little Creek, Virginia; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Marc Ennis; marching; memorials; Millington, Tennessee; Mount Fuji; NAS Atsugi; Naval Air Facility Atsugi; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; naval training; NAWCTSD; Operation Enduring Freedom; orlando; Pensacola; Philippines; pools; Port Hueneme, California; radars; recruit training; Recruit Training Center Orlando; rescue swimmers; RTC Orland; SAR; Search and Rescuer; shellback ceremonies; shellback ceremony; Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk; simulations; Starboard Delta; swimming; terrorism; The Fonz; The Grinder; The Guardian; training; typhoon reliefs; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Navy; USS Blue Jacket; USS Gunston Hall; USS John C. Stennis; veterans; War in Afghanistan; WAVES; woman; women; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; Yamato, Japan
Oral History of Alan R. Holtz
Tags: 1st Gulf War; 1st Iraq War; 9/11; aircraft carrier; aircraft carriers; Alan R. Holtz; basic training; boot camp; boot camps; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; CVHP; Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; drafts; E-6; education; Enlisted Rank 6; enlistment; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Gulf War; Hancock; instructors; Iraq War; Jared Grossi; Kuwait War; liberties; liberty; military education; military training; naval instructors; North Vietnam; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Persian Gulf War; Philippines; Republic of the Philippines; Republic of Vietnam; San Diego, California; selective service; September 11th; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; South Vietnam; TAR; terrorism; terrorists; training; Training and Administration of the Reserve; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USS Hancock; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; watch; watches
Oral History of Philip Rogers
Tags: 9/11; advanced training; American Chemical Society; Bennett Drive; Berlin Wall; Berlin, Germany; Bill Clinton; Bronx, New York City, New York; Caribbean Crisis; cold war; colleges; colorblindness; Commander; commissioned officers; Community Veterans History Project; Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis; CVHP; dependents' cruises; deterrent patrols; dry docks; education; educators; Engineering Duty Officer; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphin Program; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphins; Engineering Duty Officer School; Father of the Nuclear Navy; firefighting; fires; Florida Power & Light Company; FPL; Gerald Mattson; Germany; Hyman G. Rickover; Hyman George Rickover; Indiana University; instructors; Jensen Beach; Jim Tully; Killian Hiltz; Lehman College; mayors; military education; military spouses; military training; military wife; military wives; Nathan Hale; nuclear power; Nuclear Power Ballistic Missile Submarines; nuclear power plants; Nuclear Power School; nuclear safety; Nuclear Ship Superintendent School; October Crisis; Officer Indoctrination School; OIS; orlando; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Philip Rogers; presidents; Restricted Line Officer; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; Safety Training Coordinator; September 11th; South Florida; Soviet Union; Soviets; SSBN; Steve Israel; SU; Submarine School; submarines; subs; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; The Missile Scare; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; UCF; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; universities; university; University of Central Florida; USS Nathan Hale; USSR; veterans; Washington, D.C.; William Jefferson Blythe III; William Jefferson Clinton
Oral History of Curt Sawyer
Tags: 45th Parallel North; 75th Ranger Regiment; Air Assault Badge; Air Assault School; Airborne School; aircraft; airplanes; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; Army Air Assault School; Army Airborne School; Army Ranger; balaclava; bugle notes; C-130; C-141; C-160; Community Veterans History Project; Connie Mack; Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy II; Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III; Corsica, France; cows; Curt Sawyer; CVHP; Demilitarized Zone; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Department of Veterans Affairs; deployments; DMZ; Dojuan Sawyer; DPRK; DZ; Ed Hoyt; Edison Community College; education; Eglin AFB; Eglin Air Force Base; enlistment; fast strobing; firstie; Florida SouthWestern State College; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Myers, Florida; Forty-Fifth Parallel North; French Foreign Legion; GI Bill; Guard Post Ouellette; Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea; Iver; Jeep; Joint Readiness Training Center; JRTC; Jump School; Korean War; Land Rovers; line platoons; Lisa Dojuan; Lockheed C-130 Hercules; Lockheed C-141 Starlifter; military benefits; military education; military training; North Korea; Officer Basic Corps; parachutes; planes; plebe years; plebes; R&R; Ranger; Ranger Regiment; Ranger School; RB-15; Republic of Korea; rest and recuperation; Robin Dunn; ROK; Sabalauski Air Assault School; San Francisco, California; Savannah, Georgia; scout platoon; scout platoons; Seoul, South Korea; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; Seventy-Fifth Ranger Regiment; soju; soldiers; South Korea; Special Operations Command; Tennessee; training; Transall C-160; TSAAS; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Operations Command; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; United States Military Academy at West Point; USASOC; USMA; VA; veterans; Veterans Affairs; watch caps; West Point; yearly; Zodiac
Oral History of Ray Sturm
Tags: 210th Field Artillery Brigade; 34th Infantry Division; accountants; Advanced Individual Training; advanced training; AIT; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; alerts; AR-15; Army Special Forces; basic training; beers; budget cuts; cold war; colleges; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; comradery; CVHP; David Lee Roth; defense; defense budgets; Desert Storm; desert training; E-3; E-4; education; Enlisted Rank 3; Enlisted Rank 4; enlistment; Federal Republic of Germany; firearms; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Fort Irwin & the National Training Center; Fort Jackson; Fort Stewart; Frankfurt Airport; Frankfurt, Germany; FRG; Georgia; German Air Force; Germans; Germany; Gulf War; Gulf War I; guns; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery; Herzo Base; Herzogenaurach, Germany; HHB; higher education; Iraq; Iraq War; James Earl Carter, Jr.; Jimmy Carter; Katie Hollingsworth; Kuwait; Kuwait War; law enforcement; Luftwaffe; M16 rifles; military training; Mojave Desert; music; musicians; National Training Center; NCO; non-commissioned officers; Nuremberg Trials; Nuremberg, Germany; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Persian Gulf War; PFC; police; police brutality; polizei; Private First Class; range shooting; rapid deployment forces; Ray Sturm; Republic of Iraq; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; sergeants; shooting; shooting ranges; soldiers; Special Forces; Specialist 4; State of Kuwait; supply; terrorism; terrorists; Thirty-Fourth Infantry Division; training; Two Hundred and Tenth Field Artillery Brigade; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Forces; UCF; University of Central Florida; Van Halen; veterans; veterans' benefits; Warrior Thunder; weapons; weather; West Germany; Wilson Jones; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Terry W. Wheeler
Tags: 11th ACR; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 18th Airborne Corps; 2nd ACR; 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Battalion; 2nd Lieutenant; 69th Armor Regiment; Achievement Medal; ACR; advanced training; Airborne Corps; Armor Officer; Armor Regiment; Armored Cavalry Regiment; basic training; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Blachorse Regiment; cavalry; COEA; cold war; combat simulations; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; cost and operational effectiveness analysis; CVHP; deployments; East Germany; Eighteenth Airborne Corps; Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment; enlistment; Executive Officer; Federal Republic of Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Lee, Virginia; Free State of Bavaria; freedom birds; FRG; German Democratic Republic; Germans; Germany; Infantry Branch; information technology; inner German border; IT; lieutenants; Maintenance Officer; military training; Operations Research/Systems Analysis; ORSA; rapid deployment force; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; ROTC; Schweinfurt, Germany; scouts; SDES; Second ACR; Second Armored Cavalry Regiment; Second Battalion; Second Lieutenant; simulation training; Sixty-Ninth Armor Regiument; Student Development and Enrollment Services; Tank Company Commander; Taylor Johnson; Terry W. Wheeler; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Infrantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia; UCF; UCF SDES; UCF Student Development and Enrollment Services; veterans; weapon systems; West Germany; XVIII Airborne Corps