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Service Unit/Ship: 3rd Squadron, 5th Cavalry Regiment
Location of Service: Fort Ord, California; Korea; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Germany; Fort Lewis, Washington; Port Angeles, Washington; Mobile, Alabama; North Bend, Oregon; Seattle, Washington
Service Unit/Ship: USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN 624); USS Alaska (SSBN 732); USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730)
Location of Service: Orlando, Florida; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Charleston, South Carolina; San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Bremerton, Washington; Pacific Ocean
Location of Service: South Dakota; Camp Pendleton, California; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Guam (Mariana Islands); Albany, New York; Georgia; Okinawa, Japan; Korea
War or Conflict: Afghan War, 2001-2021; Iraq War, 2003-2011
Branch of Service: Army
Location of Service: Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Gordon, Georgia; Fort Lewis, Washington; Stuttgart, Germany; Kuwait; Bolivia
Service Unit/Ship: USS Queenfish (SSN 651); USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730); USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740); USS Columbia (SSN 771); Nuclear Power Training Unit S1W; Nuclear Power Training Unit A1W
Location of Service: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Bangor, Washington; Kings Bay, Georgia; Idaho
Oral history interview of Tashi Sonam
At the age of eleven, the interviewee began learning printing skills, and moved to Lhasa to serve his tutor, from age twelve to eighteen. At the age of twenty-three, he worked on a commission of inscription in a nunnery doing the autobiography of Jezon Rinpoche. The interviewee discusses conflicts between the Khampas and the PLA in 1959 and the education sessions during the Democratic…
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn C. - Tibet Oral History and Archive Project
Date:2000
Audio Recording
Oral history interview of Anan
The subject was born into a treba household and tended cows as a child. In this interview, he discusses how he later became a monk in the Mojog monastery at the age of 16 and describes his monastic life. He talks about how the reforms affected him and how he became a middle class farmer. In 1966, he became an activist and a Red…
Contributor:
Goldstein, Melvyn C. - Tibet Oral History and Archive Project
Service Unit/Ship: 8th Security Forces Squadron; Missile Security Forces
Location of Service: Lackland Air Force Base, Texas; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; Korea; Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska; Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; Luke Air Force Base, Arizona; RAF Lakenheath, England; Iraq; F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
Monday Series: Michael Scharff, Timothy Liu
Recorded at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 24-Apr-00. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Description from label on media box. Number from edge label: 1883 A
Contributor:
St. Mark's Church In-The-Bowery (New York, N.Y.). Poetry Project