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Needless
to say, I made a good Marine Guard. As a guard, I also was given ample
opportunities to meet a lot of employees at the National Security
Agency. Several knew my cryptologic background and gave me their contact
information should I decide to leave the Marine Corps. I did; that is
leave the Marine Corps, but not after a final shot at those who were
given the rank and the responsibility to lead a few good men. On June 5,
1965, after standing my last watch, showering and changing into my
civvies, the 1st Sergeant came to me with reenlistment papers. He took
one look at me, told me the office dropped the ball in giving me the
reenlist briefing and asked if I would consider reenlisting. I remember
simply smiling, and asking on which line do I sign to get out of the
Marine Corps.
Twenty days later I married a wonderful woman, a teacher, who lived in
southern Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Six months after that I began a
rewarding career with the National Security Agency. I held many jobs
over a 31 year career with them. I was an analyst that found me back to
Vietnam in 1967 and later in Peshawar, Pakistan. I became a collection
manager working with a 3rd Party organization in developing and turning
over ARDF assets over to their government. I worked with engineers in
developing and documenting engineering proposals for remote and manned
airborne collection systems. I wrote and implemented the Letter of
Requirements for this nation’s global airborne reconnaissance
operations. I tasked overhead resources. I became the branch chief for
worldwide Echelon Operations. I was a Group coordinator in our National
SIGINT Operations (crisis) Center, and I spent my last eight years as a
Branch Chief targeting two of this nation’s still most important
economic or military targets. I retired from the Agency in December
1998, still believing there is nothing finer a man can do than work for
the defense of his country.
After retiring, I began playing in some of the kitchens in and around
the Annapolis area. I refined my culinary skills and became a Chef at
one of these restaurants, and remained there until my wife got ill and
died of Leukemia in 1999. I met and married Peggy and we were married in
the Annapolis area in May 2000 and we subsequently moved to Ft. Myers,
Florida in 2001.
Looking back at my life in Baltimore, growing up and going to school
there, to my marriages, I truly feel I’ve been blessed. I felt a spirit
guiding me through the good times and bad, from job to job, and from
place to place. Being blessed with a great and healthy life, with two
wonderful women, and now a wonderful life and home in Fort Myers, I
learned my brother’s prayers also were answered. David and his family
had been praying for me; that I would find Christ. I was Baptized last
year, together with my brother, on 5 May/Cinco de Mayo.
The final chapter of my life isn’t written. Darrell Haines and Dennis
Fouts saw to that. It was through them that got us stated in reuniting
with members of our unit. After over 40 years, they started the process
by first finding two or three, than five and now our numbers continue to
grow. I thank God for my life, for all of you reentering my life and for
the United States Marine Corps.
Harvey Rosenfeld
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