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I enjoyed my monthly weekends and 2 week annual training in the Air National Guard. It was completely different from my regular work and provided me with a way to see other places of this country. I belonged to a civil engineering unit, that was worldwide deployable so unlike other guard units that did their 2 week training close to home, my unit often was sent to other air force bases. We were the ones that would go in to build the air fields or other construction if we were deployed, so our training was often going somewhere and working construction. We were in Hawaii @ Higgins Air Force Base when I had the accident that made mush of part of my knee joint, with a spiral fracture of my lower leg. The doctors took a graft from my hip to rebuild my knee, but in the end I had nerve and muscle damage to my foot and ankle as well as a knee that needs replacing at this point in my life.