Join me in the last year of my Military service at Ft Bragg North Carolina.
I was stationed with the 1st Military Intelligence Battalion and worked at the Press and Camera Section.
My main job as a Photo Lab Technician was processing and printing the aerial reconnaissance photos shot by the U.S. Air Force at Pope Air Base, attached to Ft Bragg. We also had over 50,000 82 Airborne troops on base.
In fact, during the time I was in the Army, you may remember President Kennedy demanding the Russians remove the missiles form Cuba.
It was our team of Photo Interpreters who first discovered those missiles in the aerial footage we processed.
Our photo lab was also equipped with Offset printing presses and I was also responsible for making the printing plates necessary for the presses.
We were much like a small town news paper office with printing presses, 4x5 press cameras, typesetting and also 16mm motion picture equipment.
Since I had access to all the equipment needed, I thought it would be fun to publish a month mag for my battalion. After getting the needed approval and promising to do this on my free time I published two issues for the fun of it.
After two months, I realized it was more work than fun. But I'm glad I found these two old copies after all these years and maybe you'll enjoy a little trip back with me over fifty years ago to April 1964.
End of the first Informer publication.
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