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KENNETH HILLIG
HIGHLAND SPRINGS RESIDENT, NAVY
During the early 1950s, the draft was in effect and deferments from active duty where afforded if one attended a full-time college. I was recruited during my senior year for the Navy's (officer’s candidate school) at Newport Rhode Island.
After four months of intensive instruction and physical indoctrination, I was commissioned as Ensign in the Navy.
I volunteered to be assigned as a supply officer and that approval meant further study at the Supply Officers School in Athens, Georgia. Upon completion I was assigned as the supply officer of troop transport named the general Mitchell (TAP114).
The Navy then sent me to the Navy Exchange School in Brooklyn, New York. Subsequently, I was assigned as Navy Exchange Officer at Green Cove Springs, Florida.
After four years of service I left active duty and returned to civilian life.
I then joined an all Officers Supply Unit for twenty years and ended as the (XO) Executive Officer and retired in 1983 with the rank of Commander (05).
In civilian life, I was manager of property tax of all Mobil Oil’s property in the U.S. This entailed the timely payment of all property taxes in the United States (350 million) as well as ensuing the assessed value of Mobil’s interest were not over valued by the various municipalities.
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