Iwakuni

The more I looked into her, the more she seemed like a remarkably vivid person.

Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1897, she was a novelist, an essayist, an editor, a kimono designer, and a businesswoman.

she lived to ninety-eight she never settled into a single role wherever her interest led she went one line i read stayed with me i don't have the habit of envying other people i like that not i try not to envy others just she didn't have that habit to begin with less interested in what others had more interested in what she herself found engaging that's the kind of person she seems to have been she kept moving she fell in love she married she divorced She wrote novels.

She started a magazine.

So like right out of the gate, I got my travel.

Iwakuni, Japan, there's an air station there.

I moved from there after my first year to Marine Corps Air Station New River, which was a rotary wing.

It was a little bit different flavor, but basically kind of the same.

Yes, hello, my name is Janice Beck.

I live in Iwakuni, Japan.

True Line is one of the best, if not the best.

I wait each week for a new episode, and I'm never disappointed.

Those were Westpac deployments.

So those were to Iwakuni, Japan.

From Japan, we would deploy and support exercises in Okinawa, Guam, Singapore, I've been to Iwo Jima, South Korea, Thailand, Hawaii.

So pretty much across the entire region.

You would love it.

So I went to Tokyo and Iwakuni and Kyoto.

Not enough time, but you would love it because you would love how orderly it is.

It's very organized and orderly.

Oh, yeah

... a good portion of that made it from Yuma out to Cooney, Iwakuni.

No way.

[laughs] That's awesome.

All right.

So w- when did you make it back to the East Coast, or did you go...

So you did Iwakuni right out of, in your first squadron?

So I, I did a deployment to OIF.