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: Bill Tarin

The whole time I was in the 6901^st, I worked in an office called JDA/E.  As I remember there was also a JDA/P, in Misawa , Japan , and a JDA at USAFSS Hq.  I do not remember what JDA completely stood for, but it was Joint Development something/ Europe .  The A might have been Activity.  My AFSC was 202x0 and my primary duties in JDA/E were to process computer printouts for the day ladies, which included checking the printouts for errors (which were flagged), correcting those errors on a keypunch machine, resubmitting the new punched cards and then picking up and rechecking and then distributing the printouts to various day lady offices.  Any additional errors on the second run would have been caused by bad keypunching on our part and that would delay the time we got to leave.  I remember a large computer room with huge IBM machines that processed the printouts I had to pick up.  My immediate supervisor(s) during that time was a TSgt Schnell (sp) and a MSgt Barton Darling.  I do not remember the other major workers in JDA/E, but I remember there were a Captain and a SMSgt in the office and a couple of SSgt’s.  I do not remember any of their names and they usually did not speak to a lowly one such as me except to criticize if we made one mistake.  They were not a friendly group, but Schnell and Darling were great supervisors who stood up for us.

I was at Zweibrucken from July 1962 to July 1964 and then left under the 2T program to Shemya.  I worked night shift going to work at either 9 or 10 pm (I do not remember the exact time) and leaving work after it was all done, which was usually anytime between 1 am and 6 am, most of the time being around 3-4 am.  I worked four on, four off continuously.  There were four of us working that shift with two of us being on duty at any one time.  I might be a little off on the schedule, but that is the way I remember it.  There may have been a fifth person (one of the day ladies) who filled in if one of us was sick or on leave.  I do not remember the names of the four other individuals working that shift, but they were the same rank as me.  Kind of a rough time to work, but the days off were great and we were exempt from all extracurricular duties, such as working in the orderly room with the NCOD (I do not remember the title of the job).  All four of us did get an extra duty one time and we were each scheduled to work in the burn room for a shift (not at the same time).  Our supervisors objected (Darling and Schnell), but by the time we got excused from that duty, I and one other had worked the burn room one time.  This really screwed up the work we had to do on our night shift and the higher ups (outside of JDA/E) were made to understand the consequences of us pulling extra duty since there was no one to fill in for us and one person could not do the job alone.  The worst thing about this job was that the four of us hardly knew anyone because our shifts did not coincide with other shifts there and we each knew primarily those who lived in the barracks with us (each of us living in a different part of the barracks).  Everyone else was pretty much a stranger.

Here with images of orders as provided by Bill Tarin 1962-1964

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I accidentally came across a locater file listing me as missing from the
file of former members of the 6901st SCG @ Zwiebrucken, where I served from 1961 through March 1963 and then took a concurrent tour to  AFSSO Itazuke AB Japan.  At the time I was SSGT FRED N. GILES.   I am now retired as of 1 August 1973 with rank of TSGT. and located at:

TSGT Fred N. Giles, USAF (Ret.)
460 Trentham Road
Newport, TN   37821
(423) 623-3794  email gilesfn@planetc.com

In case someone wants to take me off of the MIA list and put me on the
retired list.  THANKS

I appreciate the info from your site.

A1C Richard G. Crothers, 20250, sent to 6901st from 6951st (RAF Kirknewton)
when Cuban crisis broke out in '62.  Worked for SSGT Ligouri Hagerty, as an
analyst/reporter (on Mod19 TTY five hole paper tape). Overall boss was
Colonel "Minnie" Williams.  All I remember is going down the hill to town
was easy.  Army had Cinderella liberty (back on base at 2300) leaving all
the frauleins to AF personnel (and a few Navy).  Also remember the long bus
ride to the big NATO base at Ramstein with a stop at Landstuhl.  Did some
touristing in Heidelberg.  Spoke 17th-18th Century German ... to which all
the Germans looked at me as though I was from outer space ... did not know
any of the new technology words, e.g., train=bahn, telephone=fernsprecher
... the good news was that bier, bratwurst, and other foods had not changed
in 200+ years.  Good website. I'd never taken any pictures. V/R Dick C. rgcrothers@starpower.net

I was there form 1961 to 1964 and recognized many names on the roster you
had...also saw some of them while in Okinawa in 1967-1971

But retired now..

Been trying to find folks...would kike to find some who served with me in
Okinawa in the 1968-1970 time frame...believe they went to Augsburg..(or
wherever the 6901st function relocated to)..

Any help...the name I ma looking for is John Shoupe he would have been a 3
striper at the time..

Regards

EJ Hahn (Earle) Msgt..made Staff at the 01st in 1963 or 64..dont remember
now...been retired since 1980...got out of SS in Mar 1972

Any words are mor than welcome

ejhahn@cafes.net 

Dave, I was in Zwei 1962-63 - assigned OPN-SA Russian 203..... Went 2T to (argh) Shemya....  I remember the threat to turn the 1st Sgt. into a green frog - they actually took it seriously... Phrases: you forgot "IHTFP" - I Hate This Fxxxxx Place"   I played guitar in the little rock band at the EM club "THe Sabres"  (Clever name, eh?) Great to see a site with more info on Zwei...   I communicated with Phil Conrad off and on the last couple years, but haven't lately.  I'm retiring from the City of Milwaukee I.T. department in a couple months. One of my hopes is to pay a visit to whatever remains of Turrene Kaserne.... and Zwei... > Best, Dennis Wamser former SSGT - USAFSS... Dennis Wamser
Network Analyst Asst.
Milwaukee Health Dept.
414-286-5167

Hi David.  My name is Harrell P. "Jose" Farrar.  I was assigned to SUPP-2 as a 201XX from Nov. 1960 - Jun. 1964. I do not have any pictures from Zweibruecken but I have enjoyed yours from www.electricianeducation.com/zweibruecken.htm.   Thanks for the memories and info of what happened after I left.

 Hi... Name is Dick Brun and I was with the 6901st from June '61 through
September '63.  Saw the site before with Don's contributions and it was
great.  It is super with your input.  I am flying to Kansas in the AM to
return to my new home where I am convalescing from some eye surgery which I
have been having performed in California.  Have a slug of slides whicih I
will try to scan and send to you within the next couple of months after my
eye heals.  Just wanted to thank you for your taking over the site and to
wish you well.  I was assigned to "Machines" and programmed the IBM 1401 and
1410 systems behind the "grey door" in our section with some IBM'ers for IBM
Federal Systems Division.
Regards,
Dick Brun
8735 Eagles Landing Drive
Manhattan, KS 66502
dickbrun99@aol.com
785-539-0701 fax

This is a picture of OSUP-1(computer operations) "C" trick. From left to right are Don Heath, Mel Bird, Phil Conrad and Kuy(Hoagie) Kuykendall at our
recent reunion. We served from 1962-1965 at good old Zwei.

From: "Phil Conrad" <pc062436@localnet.com>