Nuts & Volts - July 2004

Roy Norman

Arriving home after 30 years of Service

Civilian Norman at Savannah, GA Laboratory

After the service, Norman received honors in chemistry at Brunswick College, then worked for a couple of different companies in jobs that combined his backgrounds in electronics, chemistry, and maritime knowledge.

Today, he’s fully retired, “mainly because of health reasons. I’m almost 80 now and I’ve had two brain tumor operations and I seem to be functioning all right, except for my legs — arthritis in the knees.”

Two brain tumor operations? Could they be related to ...

staff — Admiral McCain, the father of the now Senator McCain. I was on Admiral McCain’s staff as an electronics warfare officer for four years.

“Afterward, since I only had about a year and a half to do, they transferred me back down to the Brunswick Naval Air Technical Center in Georgia and I spent my last year and a half here. I retired on the last day of January, 1972.” Norman retired with the rank of lieutenant commander. “I’ve now been retired for 32 years, plus.”

“No sir. I asked the doctor about that and he said, no, he didn’t think so. They were non-cancerous-type brain tumors.”

But that’s in the past. At 80, Roy Norman is able to look back at a life in technology and say it was not a bad one at that.

Roy Norman can be reached via Email at usnmustang1@bellsouth.net NV

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