Eye of the Storm - About the Author

On March 11, 1937, Ervah Doris Adcock gave birth to Albert Eugene (Gene) Adcock in the home of her father, Erva Biby. Erva and wife Delphi lived on a small farm – on the hard road – a half-mile south of Christopher, Illinois.
Gene is the only child of two only-children. His father Leon, grandfather's
Isaac Adcock and Erva Biby were all career coalminers at the Bell & Zoller
Coal Company in Zeigler, Illinois - not far from the coalfields of Kentucky. Times were hard during his adolescent years and his dad offered to help
Gene break into the coal mine, as soon as he graduated from high school.
But, he didn't recommend it.

Within months after graduation from Christopher Community High School - Class of ’54 - Gene took his fathers advice, enlisting in the Air Force. Still seventeen, he celebrated his 18th birthday - on March 11, 1955 - while in Basic Training, at Lackland AFB, Texas.

Assignments - From basic training A/3C Gene was sent to Scott AFB, Illinois. At the time Scott was Headquarters, Air Training Command and the home of the Ground Radio Maintainer course, among many others. In January 1956, A/2C Gene graduated as a ground radio maintainer and was sent to the Shiroi AB, Japan. Shroi was a highly-classified USAF Security Service radiointercept facility, located about 30 miles
east of Tokyo.

In the summer of 1957, A/1C Gene returned to Sewart AFB, Tennessee, home of the 314th Troop Carrier
Wing and the 314th Communication Squadron, to which he was assigned. Within a year, Gene volunteered –
and was accepted for Combat Control Team assignment – with the 2nd Aerial Port Squadron at Sewart.

• 1958 - 1963 - Over the next five years, SSgt Gene concentrated on filling CCT training squares
  and settled into the job as an operational combat controller. From Sewart, Gene’s combat control
  career progressed through the following assignments:
  
  
• 1963 – 1966 – 7th Aerial Port Squadron – Tachikawa AB, Japan
  
  SSgt - TSgt
  With three short TDY combat tours in Vietnam
  
  
• 1966 – 1967 – 10th Aerial Port Squadron – Dyess AFB, Texas
  
  
• 1967 – 1972 – 1st ACW, 1st SOW, 4410th SOTG – England AFB, LAT
  
  Sgt - SMSgt
  With three long TDY combat tours in Laos
  
  
• 1972 –1973 – 9th Aerial Port Squadron – Forbes AFB, Kansas
  CMSgt
  
  
• 1973 – 1975 – 2nd Aerial Port Squadron – Little Rock AFB, Arkansas
  
  
• 1975 – 1977 – Headquarters, Military Airlift Command, Scott AFB, Illinois

MAC IG Team - Combat Control Inspector

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