Employed 7 part 4

l did start missing Dulce as soon as l got on the train, but after our marathon
procreation drill, l was happy for an interruption. Eventually, l came to realize
that l missed the non-sexual part of our relationship as much,if not more than
the sexual. Just talking with her was a delight;we were not always in agree-
ment, but we never (not once) had arguments or even raised voices. l have
only fond memories of our times together. Oh, l know nothing can ever be
perfect, but except that it ended too soon, our relationship (from my perspec-
tive) was perfect.

The ASA school would give us Russian Military vocabulary and the ability to
type not less than 45 words-per-minute on a Russian typewriter (with cyrillic alphabet). l thought l'd never reach the required 45wpm within the 90 days
of the ASA course, but my final typing test yielded a score of 54wpm, six
days before the 90th day. lucky, huh?

Finally, after a little more than 13 months in training, l was about to be em-
ployed, not in gathering know-how, but using it to contribute to America's
security. Pretty heady stuff, but l was ready for it. l was assigned to a post
in southern Alaska, near the town of Kenai. Dulce wanted to see me off from
Seattle, so she flew in for the day and night that l'd be be there. That was
nice, if a little sad: There was a last-ditch effort to produce a Son, even though we both had begun to think that one, or both of us, might be infer-
tile, though neither of us had reason to think so. Except for the obvious,

l began my work at Wildwood Station (WS) in early April, 1957. The operations
building was about two miles from the main post, which was about three
miles from Kenai. lt was a large,square one-story building, about 75 or 80 feet
on a side. A 12-foot thick wall, with only two passage ports, surrounded the 
building. ln voice section, a room of about 150 sq. ft., five voice intercept
positions are located, one behind the other along the wall to their right. Each
position is equipped with two Collins radio receivers capable of receiving
every signal between zero kilocycles and seventy-five megacycles. Coupled
with the radios were two Ampex tape recorders that could be set to many
different tape speeds, up to 30 inches per second. Two typewriters are present; one Russian,for serious business, one American. (for our letters home). Just west of the  building was a 80-acre antennae able to catch radio waves from thousands of miles away..
When first reporting to work at  Operations, we new guys were told that too
many voice ops had been trained in total and too many of those had been assigned to WS. Their solution to the problem was great, so far as l was concerned; lnstead of working five days on days;two days off, then five days on swing; two days off, then five days on graveyard, We would actually 
work only three days on and four days off for all shifts. That schedule was 
the best. Especially since it was early spring and in ALASKA. Don't think that
we didn't take full advantage. Consider a couple of realities: Army Supply 
will outfit soldiers with camping equipment and food rations for exploring
the country of your location. and two; l don't think there is a person in Alaska
who doesn't pick up hitch-hikers whether they're in a car,truck or light
airplane. ln the first four months l was in Alaska, l hitch-hiked almost every
day and it was always the first car approaching that stopped and picked me
up. Sometimes as many as four of us would travel together. Even then the 
first car approaching would always stop, even if it was to tell us they hadn't
enough space for us. On perhaps four occasions, three or four of us were
hitching on a highway that was running along the bank of a river.We are
standing on the roadside,waiting for a prospect. We hear a plane and look
toward the sound of it and see a Cessna 195 that looks, at first like it was
about to land on the pavement,but then lined up on the river's center and
landed there. For a light plane, the 195 is very spacious, but we and our 
stuff packed that plane to the brim and probably exceeded the weight limit
but when one of us suggested that the pilot reduce our number by one or two, he said he wouldn't hear of it; "she's carried more than this many times and in worse weather. We'll be fine". And we were.