Got a new Job today! Going to work for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park!

[FiremanBill]

Well folks there a good days, there are great days, there are amazing days... and there there are days like today!

I got the call about 5pm today that I have been selected to be the new 911 Telecommunications Manager for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. I should be reporting for duty mid march.

I will be leaving the United States Air Force after just over 33 years and 5 months of combined Active duty and Civil Service time. It will be the first time in my entire adult life that I have not worked for the Air Force.

But oh what a way to go out! I am finally getting to go home to my beloved mountains of East Tennessee.

Looking forward to this new chapter in our lives.

 

[Bogie]

Congrats all the way around. It looks like everything is going your way.

Thank you for your service!

 

[Seren]

Wonderful! I'll message you when we are in the area, we love the Smokies.


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[Kbvols]

Awesome!! Congratulations! Love the Smokey's we go there pretty much every year.


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[VKTalley]

That's awesome, Bill!!! Congrats!!

 

[JanAndBill]

One of our favorite places. Spend a lot of time there throughout the year.

 

[jeffdee]

Congrats Bill and thank you for your service to the country!

 

[donr827]

You could never have a better day. Leaving the AF and are able to get a job in my favorite part of the country. Where will you be working out of? Thank you for your service.
Don

 

['Lil Guy']

Congrats on your new found job. Our last vacation was in the region. Beautiful up there. Thanks for your service and good luck on your transition to civilian life.

 

[jbeletti]

Congrats Bill. We love the Smoky Mountain area and live 2 hours west of it on the Cumberland Plateau in Crossville. Or I should say, we have a home there We live mostly on-the-road.

 

[porthole]

Cool beans and congrats.
Love the Smoky's, am down there at least once a year riding the mountain roads.

 

[jayc]

Congratulations Bill and thanks for your service. Looks like everything is working out! Good luck in the new job.

 

[FiremanBill]

You could never have a better day. Leaving the AF and are able to get a job in my favorite part of the country. Where will you be working out of? Thank you for your service.
Don

Thanks all! I am still on cloud 9!

Don I will be working at the Park Headquarters facility at the Sugarlands Visitor Center. It is near the main Entrance from Gatlinburg.

 

[klindgren]

Hey, Congrats Bill. Going to a favorite place and getting paid to be there to boot!! Can't get much better than that!! We'll have to stop by and say Hi when we are in the Smokies. I guess this means we won't see you in Temperanceville in May??

 

[FiremanBill]

Yeah I wasn't going to be able to go to Temperanceville anyway as our Daughter graduates from George Mason University on May 16th.

Kind of need to go to that... lol