Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.
Theodora Redwing was a yeoman in the Navy. She trained female recruits and tested them to see what job they could do. And if the recruits didn’t salute her, it was her job to remind them.
Theodora Redwing went to Navy boot camp at the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Back then, training wasn’t coed. For female recruits, training wasn’t guns but marching, swimming and book learning.
Theodora Redwing was working at Northern States Power in Minneapolis, making photocopies all day long, day after day. There has to be more to life than this. So she joined the Navy.
Glen Cloud, Navy, worked the mailroom on the USS Oklahoma City during the Vietnam War. When he took the ship’s helicopter to Vietnam for mail deliveries, he had to man the door gun against enemy ground fire.
Aboard the Navy’s USS Oklahoma City, Glen Cloud was initially sent to work in the mess deck. There he helped serve four meals a day to a crew of 1,200.
For his first duty station in the Navy, Glen Cloud was sent to Yokohama in Japan. He was assigned to the post office and delivered mail in a two-and-a-half-ton truck.
Glen Cloud went to San Diego for Navy basic training in 1971. One of the punishments for falling asleep in class was the marching party. But Cloud would join it even if he wasn’t in trouble to get some extra exercise. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
Glen Cloud joined the Navy during the Vietnam War. The day after arriving at Worm Island for boot camp, he was woken up by yelling sergeants and trashcan lids. Here’s Britt Aamodt.
