Date: Time Period: 1960 - 1980; 2015-11-22; Interview recorded: November 22 2015Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.Dimension:
Total running time: 0:04:16
Creator: Joseph Tabaco interviewed by Claro de los Reyes and Jennifer QuiambaoIdentifier: aql:20359 tabaco_joseph_clip3
Description: Joey shares his memories of being a "greaser," who "could keep cars running with bubble gum and bailing wire." He also considered himself a "geek," because in 1967, he was one of the first people to take the computer programming course called BAL at Martin Van Buren HS (Queens). When he was 12 or 13, he joined the Civil Air Patrol (or "Air Explorer Boy Scouts"), and worked as a radio operator for the Queens group of the Civil Air Patrol, with whom he also took flying lessons out of Flushing Airport. He goes on to discuss his military career as a weatherman in the U.S. Air Force. In the Pacific, he was part of the 54th weather reconnaissance squadron out of Anderson Air Force Base in Guam (called the “typhoon chasersâ€), and in the Atlantic, he was part of the 53rd weather reconnaissance squadron (called the “hurricane huntersâ€) out of Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
Creator : Joseph Tabaco interviewed by Claro de los Reyes and Jennifer Quiambao
Date : Time Period: 1960 - 1980; 2015-11-22; Interview recorded: November 22 2015
Summary/Description : Joey shares his memories of being a "greaser," who "could keep cars running with bubble gum and bailing wire." He also considered himself a "geek," because in 1967, he was one of the first people to take the computer programming course called BAL at Martin Van Buren HS (Queens). When he was 12 or 13, he joined the Civil Air Patrol (or "Air Explorer Boy Scouts"), and worked as a radio operator for the Queens group of the Civil Air Patrol, with whom he also took flying lessons out of Flushing Airport. He goes on to discuss his military career as a weatherman in the U.S. Air Force. In the Pacific, he was part of the 54th weather reconnaissance squadron out of Anderson Air Force Base in Guam (called the “typhoon chasersâ€), and in the Atlantic, he was part of the 53rd weather reconnaissance squadron (called the “hurricane huntersâ€) out of Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
Subject : Filipino Americans; United States. Civil Air Patrol; United States. National Weather Service. Office of Meteorology
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