On November 22, 1963 I was TDY to a UH-1 L-9 turbine factory school in Manheim, Germany. Seems like I was always going TDY to some school or the other, if it wasn't a Tech school it was the NCO academy. As usual I was low on money so I was siting on the edge of my bunk shining my boots listening to the latest songs being piped in when they broke in with an announcement that President Kennedy had been hurt in Dallas. Yeah, OK, what did he do, stub his toe? A couple of minutes latter they broke within , "The President has been shot". Set stunned and disbelieving the radio. The command went to Defcom 4. Looked out the window and all I could see was people rushing out with field gear and weapons ( if you are going to start a war, kill the leaders first was the rational ). I could hear tanks starting and moving to Start Lines , Convoys were lining up, the world was going crazy and here I was, no field gear, no weapons, nothing but the TL 29 I had stole from my tool box. The Radio came back with the announcement that" The President Was Dead ". Yes, November 22, 1963 is one of those dates that if someone asks " what where you doing on that date, you remember every detail as if it was yesterday.