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| Sunset, Fort Holabird (Baltimore) - Maryland 1966 |
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| White Cross (New York City) - New York 1966 |
Mike was stationed at Fort Holabird at the beginning of 1964, then towards the end of 1966, during which time he visited New York a few times.
Mike's diploma below, now proudly pushpinned to his darkroom wall.
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| Fort Holabird Diploma |
2 comments:
My late step-cousin Paul S. Conklin was trained at Fort Old, near Monterey, in intelligence.
They taught him Russian, and his assignment was to listen in one the tapped conversations of East German and Russian operatives in Berlin in the 1950's.
Later, he ostensibly became a photo-journalist, was hired by Sargent Shriver to be the Peace Corps official photographer, which required him to travel almost constantly around the world.
Our family long suspected that he had never really left the intelligence business when he left the military, and that this new identity was just a cover for his doing CIA contacts during the ensuing 20 years.
I've never tried to verify this, though relatives who knew him better were always mysteriously mum about it.
Are you at liberty to say just what kind of work you did for military intelligence?
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Just kidding! I was stationed in Okinawa in an obscure unit dedicated to propaganda. Actually can't remember what was accomplished there. Towards the end of my tour there I transferred to a unit processing security clearances. When I returned to the US I managed to route myself through Tokyo and Kyoto, so that was neat.
Last duty station was Fort Holabird where I was a classroom assistant.
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