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After leaving the Air
Force in 1961 I figured out that you cannot go back to “the farm”
after visiting the big city. So I
packed up and went to Berkeley
California. My brother was a PHD candidate in the
Physics department at UC Berkeley. He
helped me get a job in the computer room at the Lawrence Radiation
Laboratory. I worked there for about
10 years, and then transferred to the Chancellors office on Campus, where I
helped develop a new student information database system
During the 60’s
while working the night shift at the lab I went to school and got an airframe
and power plant mechanics license, commercial, instrument, multi engine, instructors pilots licenses. After leaving the University in 1974 I
moved to Florida
and sold airplanes for a number of years.
In 1981 I moved to the Atlanta Georgia
area and got a job selling Weather information to Pilots, and Television
stations. I covered the 11
southeastern states for 7 years. I
left that company and became a consultant to a manufacturer of high end
graphics computers used for television.
I retired in 2001.
My wife retired in 2006,
and we sold our house in the Atlanta area, and
moved to a house we owned in Sebring Florida. We build another house in the northern
mountains of Georgia 5
miles from the Tennessee
line. We now spend the summers in the
mountains and winters in Florida.
I have a narrative of my
time in the Air Force. It is on www.merhabaturkey.com. Read it over, and see if you recognize any
body in the pictures. If so let me
know and we can update the narrative with names.
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