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Carrel W. Uptergrove
I was born on the western plains of Oklahoma in the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. No one had electricity in those days and used coal oil lamps at night. We also had no air c...view moreI was born on the western plains of Oklahoma in the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. No one had electricity in those days and used coal oil lamps at night. We also had no air conditioning so on hot summer nights we placed our beds outside on the lawn. I loved looking at the stars. I vowed to learn all I could about the stars as I grew up.
I joined the army in 1948 and spent the first year of my service in electronics school in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. My first assignment was to a long-haul communications facility in Germany. When the Korean war broke out, I re-enlisted for a total of six years in service.
Then upon leaving service, I went to college, and then joined civil service with the Air Force to attend school as a radio and radar engineer. I was assigned to Alaska to work in the Air Force long-haul communications complex and was appointed as Resident Engineer for the complex.
Bad health forced me to resign my position and return to California. I shortly went to work for the Navy in ground communications and was retired in 1978.
Upon being retired I have studied physics and the stars to this day. I read many science magazines and this study has given me a wonderful insight into cosmology and astrophysics which I hope to share with the world.
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