Frank Allen Ramsey - Office of Medical History - U.S. Army

Frank Allen RamseyProcurement of Seafood, Cadiz, SpainQ: You have Spain down as a TDY [Temporary Duty] station when you were inFrance.A: Yes.Q: What were you doing?A: I was one of a series of veterinary officers sent to Cadiz, Spain, down nearGibraltar, to procure seafood for sale through the European exchange system.The seafood was shipped to commissaries and to NCO and officers clubsacross Europe, and most of it consisted of North African rock lobster tails.Officers were sent down to do this procurement, and we worked in arefrigerated cold storage plant which had a seafood processing operation in it.The fishing vessels would leave Cadiz and head for North Africa, and thenwhen they came back, if they had been lucky enough to catch a cargo of rocklobsters, then we would inspect them and package them for shipment acrossEurope. That was a very interesting assignment.Berlin Command, 1957 to 1958Q: When you finished with that assignment, you went to the Berlin Command fortwo years?A: Yes. I came back from Spain and served in France for some time after that.Then one Friday I received orders to report to Berlin, Germany the followingMonday morning because the veterinary officer there had passed awayunexpectedly. So I got orders from my local headquarters sending me toBerlin, Germany, and got in my automobile and loaded all my belongings anddrove to Germany.15