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Brent Lee Manley Manley

After high school, I attended Weber State College Majoring in Business Administration, Bookkeeping, and accounting for 2 semesters. I met the woman of my life who was majoring in Child development. She graduated from Davis High in 1969.

In June 1970, I joined the United States Army 19th Special Forces group on the delayed entry program. A month later, I went on active duty taking basic training (BT) at Fort Lewis, Washington followed by advanced individual Training (AIT) Medical core for 10 weeks as a front-line medic at Fort Sam Houston, TX. I came home for Christmas, then went back to Fort Sam Houston for my 2nd AIT phase I training (6 weeks) as an Operating Room Technician (OR Tech) then was transferred to Fitzsimmons Medical Center In Aura Colorado a suburb of Denver for 6 weeks of phase II training.

After Phase II training I stayed there an additional 2 weeks then came home and married Ruth 2 April 1971 in the Salt Lake Temple. We received our endowments the day before.

Two weeks later, I arrived at Nuremberg General Hospital, Nuremberg, Germany leaving behind Ruth until October 1971. It took that long to find a German apartment close to the hospital to live. I delivered my 1st son in July 1973.

While in Germany we traveled to East and West Berlin, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria.

In April 1974 we came home for 30 days when it was snowing pretty much the whole time.

In the Middle of May, we left in a snow storm to Fort Lee Virginia Where we stayed for 7 1/2 years (yrs). I was Transfer Duty Younder(TDY) for 6 of those years. I'll tell you later all the places I went to TDY.

June of 1981=June 1984 we went back to Nuremberg, Germany to the U.S. Army Hospital Nuremberg. I worked in the OR and ER trauma.

Then from June 1984 to June 1988, I was assigned to the 42nd Field Hospital, Fort Knox Kentucky. Again I went TDY to several places.

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