[AT] OT Massey Ferguson Edgewood Maryland

[Mark Johnson]

My dad would have been eligible for this one - I don't know if he ever 
collected. [US Army 1950-1952, drafted post-college].

He spent the majority of his hitch in the DC area, teaching Gas and 
Diesel engine mechanics at Ft. Belvoir. He also claimed to be the only 
person who ever drove through the tunnel under the Pentagon BACKWARDS. 
He was taking a buddy back to the base late on a Sunday night, and there 
was next to no traffic. He went back to the "scene of the crime" many 
times in his last few months and never did figure out how he managed to 
ignore all the "wrong way" signs!

The old man wisely declined the offer of a battlefield commission - he 
could have been a 2nd Lt. but the price was an immediate trip to Korea. 
Instead, he mustered out 5 days (or so) short of making sergeant. I 
guess he decided it was safer to risk having socket wrenches thrown at 
him in a mechanical classroom than shells with much higher energy. I 
might not be here had he decided otherwise. <no smiley here>.

Tractor related: I still remember helping my dad and a neighborhood 
master mechanic (in every sense of the word) heat up the main reduction 
gear of a JD 730, which was fitted on the output shaft with 
'interference fit' - we boiled it in a tub of motor oil for an hour to 
get the thing ready to put on the shaft. Never had a problem with the 
transmission after that.

Mark J
Columbia MO


On 1/18/2020 5:24 PM, James Peck wrote:
> I have heard this called the "Shirley Highway Ribbon"
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Service_Medal
>
> During the air traffic controller flap in 1981, I was on a plane that took off from National and was routed right down the Potomac. I could look right out the widow and see the air station, the barracks, the O Course, the grinder, the hill trail, etc. It is usually restricted air space.
>
> Mitchell Daly AT List Member (md31043 at msn.com) ; I got my commission in the Marines at Quantico in 1966. Shirley Highway is different from I-95. It's the old Rt 1.
>
> James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); A man I know did an internship at Quantico MCB while a law student at Georgetown School of Law. I-95 used to be called "Shirley Highway" thereabouts. The link does mention Quantico Creek.
>
> http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Shirley_Highway.html
>
> He joined the Navy.
>
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