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How I Got Two Packards

  through Air Force ROTC at the University of Massachusetts in 1963, and drove to my first assignment at Travis AFB, near Sacramento, California, in my black, four-door 1956 Packard Clipper. While at Travis, I got picked to be the aide de camp to the commanding general of the 1501st Air Transport Wing. Good times at the O club caused me to gain weight, so the general suggested I lose some. I did as ordered and

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