[IRCA] Ronald F Schatz, some initial writings

[Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx>]

The Kaskey Family wrote:

>Tell us the story Uncle Cholly, about Little Red Schatzinghood and the
>Big Bad Fidel.  Ron was a good dxer and he was weird.  Those two
>combinations alone..........but tell us the story Uncle
>Cholly..............
>
>dkk
>  
>

Donnie,

My last posting to IRCA started somewhere around RFS and ended up some 
where in the Far East. Yeah, and RFS went over there in the Navy. He and 
I were in the Navy at the same time, but he was assigned to frigates and 
destroyers while I was assigned to a carrier and shore stations and an 
amphibious station. I met up with him (while in the Navy) at Great Lakes 
Naval Training Center (N. Chicago/Waukegan), again at Fire Control 
Technician school, Vallejo, Calif. (a Navy FT is a technician for 
shipboard weapons control systems), over at Naval Base Subic Bay 
(Philippines); and corresponded with him at length before and after 
Navy. Saw him at a few conventions.

Ron was weird. But I knew where he came from and where he was going. If 
he had married successfully, I'll bet he and I would have become more 
alike over the years.

RFS deserves some history-telling with the journalistic effort to be 
placed in IRCA and NRC reprints.

Heck, just his short-term detention (in Cuba) by Ministry of Immigration 
or Customs personnel is a story that is worth reading on all lists. Ron, 
characteristically, wrote it all up when he got home.

What a position. I'll bet his own arguments while in detention (several 
hours) were taken with respect and a certain deference. To degrunch him 
with the Cuban gov't would have some interesting ramifications with the 
US gov't. He held a Top Secret clearance in the Navy and was just a type 
that probably could do business with the Cuban government. Even his 
detention must have benefited both.

And I knew him.

Charlie

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Charles A & Leonor L Taylor
Greenville, North Carolina


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