The Journey of Wayne

By Wayne Moody

This publication was written with the intention of publication in the Library of Congress, telling of my military service. I added my prior and postmilitary portions of my life to enhance the military subject content.

Key features:

I wanted to be an engineer and supported myself to become one.

I enlisted in the USA army, graduated from Officer Candidate School in field artillery, and served in protecting major bases during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

From there, I became a nuclear engineer.

Then I became a chief engineer, planning the USA Alaska Oil Field development, two hundred miles north of the arctic circle.

I became an engineer with Mobil Research and Development on an international basis.

After that, I managed contracts and managed a $200-million project in Los Angeles.

I was a key team member in improving major manufacturing plant performance.

Then I managed fuel supply arrangements on a corporate basis in the Los Angeles area.

I managed the business of a $700-million project in San Francisco. The project was based on the improvement of pollution emissions.

I became the business development manager of an Environmental Research and Development organization to turn environmental wastes into useful products.

I was very disabled because of home invasion, broken lower body bones, and post-traumatic stress injury. I have now recovered and am writing this.



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• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781646548583

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The Journey of Wayne

Wayne Moody

Copyright © 2020 Wayne Moody

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books, Inc.

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2020

ISBN 978-1-64654-857-6 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64654-858-3 (dgital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Prelude

Dear Janice,

We have kept in touch for several years, and you know about my journey through life during that period. Your father and his wife were the kindest people I have ever met. Your father was instrumental in getting me through university. He was an expert in photography and won an international contest featuring you as a child. He was awarded a new car as a prize.

You lived in the Chicago, Illinois, area, and your father and my mother were part of the same family. My father was in the military in the South Pacific during WWII and was in command of storing canned food in New Guinea for our troops to avoid spoilage. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio State University. After the war, he decided to settle in Central California and move his family there. He chose to be a meat inspector, working for the US Department of Agriculture.

My father presumed that his job was secure and he would be able to raise his family on his terms in a stable environment at one location. This was not the case. Meat inspectors perform duties at meat processing facilities.

If these facilities close, meat inspectors are not needed. This happened in Fresno, California, about ten years after he moved there. He was forced to fill in for vacationing inspectors in the Southern California desert and its many earthquakes. After six months of this, he applied and was accepted as a supervisor based out of San Francisco.

USDA supervisors are relocated about every three years to ensure the USDA is independent of business interests. On this basis, my father was relocated as follows:

Boise, Idaho,

Chicago, Illinois,

Denver, Colorado,

San Francisco, California.

His final position was regional director of the Pacific North West region, based out of Salem, Oregon.

My mother, part of your family, had five children and died suddenly at age sixty-four. She was a very meek person and was focused entirely on raising her children. She was born and grew up in Chicago. She was a secretary and then a housewife. After she died, my father remarried to one of the founding families of a major Marin County City near San Francisco.

My earliest memories are as follows:

A dinner party in Chicago, with WWII sailors, during WWII, including your father;

Living in Knox, Indiana (about ninety miles from Chicago), where your family had a farm;

Vicious fighting in a car in Chicago about relocating to California;

Living in a rented home in Central California and then moving to a new house well outside the city;

Learning how to ride a horse, bareback, before I was five; and

Treatment of years of physical and mental abuse as a small child.

The locations I have lived in successively are as follows:

Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, and Knox, Indiana;

Fresno and San Mateo, California;

Boise and Moscow, Idaho;

Military, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Bliss, Texas, in the USA;

Vietnam;

San Francisco, California;

Lancaster, Pennsylvania;

Cedar Rapids, Iowa;

Monroe and Detroit, Michigan;

Pasadena, California, Seattle, Washington, Anchorage, and Prudhoe Bay Alaska;

Chicago, Illinois;

Princeton, New Jersey, New York City, Beaumont/Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, California, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts;

Adelaide, Australia, and Singapore;

Los Angeles;

Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Antonio, Texas; and

San Francisco, Moscow Idaho, and Central Utah.

I will discuss some other items as I proceed with my thoughts. My time span is from WWII to 2020. The world has changed as follows:

The knowledge of mankind, the ability to wage war, and the ability to communicate have increased exponentially.

The USA dream of moving to suburbs and owning their own home is fading.

Climate change is at the point of