My basic was at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Military Police training at Fort Gordon, Georgia. I received orders for Vietnam and sent to the 90th Replacement Battalion like so many others. I received orders for the 615th MP Company and started my tour of duty. Little did I know then, that it would be the first of two tours of duty for me.

        While with the 615th most of my duties consisted of day-light highway patrol, Bien Hoa town patrol. Later I volunteered for convoy escort with the 1st Infantry Division to Phuoc Vinh. Night machine-gun patrols of Highway 1-Alpha south from Long Binh Post to Saigon and back. This was mixed with Long Binh gate guard duties until we began to run convoy escorts to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment base camp at Xuan Loc (Blackhorse). Got caught up with the Tet Offensive of 1968.

       Home in February 1968, then it was off to Fort McPhearson, Atlanta, Georgia. I volunteered back to Vietnam May of 1968. Was sent back to the 615th in August. The 615th had a new Commanding Officer and lots of new faces in the ranks as well. I applied for an early out to ETS, received it and was Honorably discharged on 6 June 1969.

        I enrolled at West Liberty State College on 8 August 1969 and received my BA Degree in Elementary Education. Taught for 1 & 1/2 years, then hired into the local steel industry and retired after 32 years on the Inter-mill Railroad. I am currently straying busy earning a degree in Criminal Justice from the local Community College.

        Married for 38 years to karen (McMillan) Jasko, my wonderful partner in life. Three children that continue to make us proud and have given us five beautiful grand-children. We plan on a split-climate retirement, 6 months in the South and 6 months back here in wild, wonderful, West Virginia.

        My Army experience, the Military Police and especially my service in Vietnam have had a profound impact on my life. I like so many others have been yearning for that trip back, not so much in time, but to just touch that place again, the land, its people, and to find a true measure of how Vietnam now fits into this New World Order.