I finished my TDY tour to K-6 Camp Humphries near Pyongtek and was ready to head back to Richmond Microwave and VHF Site where I was assigned. Since K-6 was a base for CH-47 Chinook helicopters I tried to catch a ridge back up to my site. I got tired of waiting for a flight and I ended up going back to Taejon on the train. Shortly after getting back to Richmond Site I was asked if I would be interested in going to the NCO Academy up on the D.M.Z. I knew it would be a good experience and good for an Army career but I did not plan on making the military my vocation. I was able to decline the opportunity after discussing it with my commanding officer. He was sympathetic with me since I had just returned from my field alert in the mobile microwave van.

By late summer of '69 I was due for a promotion to Specialists 5th Class (Sp/5) so my C.O. sent me down to Taegu were I would stand before the Promotion Board and take my test. During it I was able to introduce an idea I had about developing a radio refresher class for signalmen in Korea. I told the colonels on the board that radio technicians were operating radio systems unfamiliar to them as it was not what they studied in their specialty school. I went on about the need for cross training for site personnel for numerous reasons and finally one colonel spoke up and said that he had the same type of course in mind. It was a pet project of his to develop a radio refresher school similar to one in Vietnam.