My tour of duty was in South Korea with a signal long lines battalion. I was posted to a remote radio repeater site where I eventually became an acting sergeant and site commander. We had alerts and exercises with Korean army troops, but no excitement. Half my signal class was sent to 'Nam but I lucked out - those sites were under intermittent mortar and sniper fire. I was drafted in a huge draft on Pearl Harbor Day 1966. I enlisted the first week after induction in order to get signal school At Fort Monmouth, NJ, which ate up ten months of my enlistment with stateside duty. My Korea duty was extended seven months so I could qualify for site chief, and then I got an early discharge because my time left wouldn't allow reassignment. So my time in service was 32 months. I loved Korea, its countryside, and its people. Most soldiers couldn't wait to get home.