Does Anyone Remember The Army Security Agency?

When I went through the induction process in April 1974, there was a representative from the ASA at the induction center who attempted to pull me away from the contract I had initiated with my recruiter and have me join-up with the ASA in some capacity. At that point in my life I had no interest in the technical aspects of communications so my scores were barely within the acceptable range from the aptitude tests I had taken. He was really leaning on me to go into a commo MOS until I asked him if my aptitude score for the career field I had actually enlisted for was good enough, he looked and said, "yes it is." I said, "Good, you had me worried that I wouldn't be able to do what I was attempting to enlist for and I was about to just go home and forget about it." HAHAHA. I guess the ASA was short-handed in their commo MOS's at that time and so they were trying to persuade people to sign up for them. In 1977, the ASA was merged with the US Army's Military Intelligence component to create the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). And ironically, my final duty station in Germany was at an INSCOM installation, Gablingen Kaserne on the North side of Augsburg. But I was not there to work for INSCOM...I was assigned there as the Detachment Commander of my company's flight detachment which was there to support VII Corps Artillery. We supported the Brigade Commander with an OH-58, and I was the designated pilot for the Commander, VII Corps Artillery with a UH-1 Huey. I flew for two of them during my tenure...MG Louis J. Del Rosso, and BG Creighton W. Abrams Jr, whose father was the Army Chief of Staff when I joined in 1974. I loved flying for both of them, but actually deployed to Dessert Storm with BG Abrams. What a time we had in that job...wheww! Loved it very much, and enjoyed the heck out of Augsburg and living in Southern Bavaria. I'd do it all again without requiring even the gentlest of nudges if I could.