{"id":12,"date":"2012-03-06T02:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T02:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2012-03-09T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:48:07","slug":"the-navy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.billkieser.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"The Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"
After\u00a0Bill enlisted in the Navy he was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Because he had attended Manulus Military School he as put in charge of his recruit company and was expected to teach other recruits how to salute, drill etc. He told me how he learned how to swim under flaming water in case he was assigned to a ship hit by\u00a0 enemy fire. He had not finished his senior high school year so after he was discharged he attended Olean High School before going to Alfred University where he played football. The team was made up of WW II veterans who dominated their opponents and had an undefeated season. Their after\u00a0game parties were legendary.\u00a0Bill then transferred to Colo A and M in FT. Collins.\u00a0As an athlete Bill was more interested in skiing than football so I guess that was one reason for the transfer. Bill first learned to ski while at\u00a0Manulus\u00a0which was near Lake Placid.<\/div>\n
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After Bill graduated from college he worked for his father at Daily Mills in Olean until around 1954. He became an assistant to the feed mill manager and started to learn the feed business.<\/div>\n
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When I think of\u00a0the young Bill\u00a0(ages\u00a020 – 40)\u00a0I remember an incredibly well coordinated man.\u00a0 His graceful\u00a0skiing looked effortless. He was ready for any challenge especially powder skiing and steep runs.\u00a0At 20 he\u00a0could swim for miles in the ocean and\u00a0his reaction time on a\u00a0sail boat was always instantaneous. He was a natural athlete. While in the Navy, one NCO who was a major league pitcher discovered Bill. He made Bill catch for him when he practiced pitching. Bill remembered how painful a major league fast ball could be even when using a catchers mitt.<\/div>\n
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One of his jobs as a gunnery instructor in the navy was to\u00a0run\u00a0a flight simulator for fighter pilots. He controlled the enemy\u00a0fighter plane which the pilot was supposed to shoot down. He became so good at it that the pilots often swore the experience was more difficult\u00a0and pressure filled than an actual dog fight. He enjoyed making the officer pilots sweat. After the war he was tempted to\u00a0get a pilots licence but he never got around to it.\u00a0Most of his Naval experience was at a training center in Pennsicola Florida. Fortuately the war ended before he was due to be shipped out for the invasion of Japan.<\/div>\n
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Bill could fix any mechanical problem. He would search junk yards for spare parts for his cars and locate used equipment needed at Feed Products. He\u00a0literallly rebuilt an entire\u00a0Star boat. He understood how things worked and loved to tinker with\u00a0all sorts of things. He loved the workshop in his boat house.<\/div>\n
—-Bill’s brother, John Kieser<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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