Skip Atwater
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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But it was something to worry about as you were coming up to graduation. And I got sent to another strange place called Alabama. So my first assignment was isn't this interesting? And my mom used to say, somebody's always going to take care of you. Yeah, mom, whatever you say. And I went to Alabama, and I don't know, six months later, Vietnam was over with.
And that began, what am I going to do now? Well, as a corporal or a sergeant by then, I guess. Every now and then I got the duty of the teletype. They didn't have other things besides teletypes at that time. And so they'd call me over the headquarters building and say, okay, this is your week on the teletype and learn how to use it and everything.
Everybody here does that, so we all know how to use it. But what that meant is I got invitations to, how would you like to go to language school? how would you like to go to technical school and learn how to bug things? How would you like to do this? And I would take the ribbon out of the teletype and say, we have a volunteer for that right now.
And so that's how I created making all of those particular things for me. And went to language school and so forth and so on. Went down and spent some time in Panama. But
Yes, but it was much more subtle. My dad was a quiet guy and he was subtle, but he was tuned in to what was going on. He was raised as in the religion where they don't believe about going to doctors. I don't remember what the name of that is right now. But when he had a broken shoulder bone, his mom tied a red ribbon around it, and that was supposed to heal it up.
And yet he became a dentist, but they didn't call that a doctor. I mean, that's a dentist, for goodness sake. That's not a doctor. He was very gentle about things. But he was aware. I was very sensitive with him. And I think part of one of those things, as I said, he always encouraged me to try things out. And he let me paint a car in the garage. And all I did was hang up sheets all around it.
And I painted the car. And he said, how did it turn out? And I said, oh, it's pretty good. Painted Uncle's car black. No, I had a 40 Chevy and I sprayed it taxi yellow and wrote taxi on the side of it. And they didn't like that driving around Glendale, California. And finally, a cop came by and he said, we want to talk to you about your car and the word taxi on the side.
I said, yeah, what's wrong with that? And he said, there is no law that says you can't do that. There's no problem with it. However, all the people that are in the taxi business can't stand it because they think it downgrades their feelings about their own car. And I said, okay, I don't have a problem with that. So took taxi off the side and I think I sold the car for $75 to somebody or something.
Nice. Did you have brothers and sisters? Two older sisters, yes. What about them? They were girls. They weren't as tuned in as I was to this whole thing. But they certainly understood it. And as we got older, we'd talk about these things. They're both dead. And we'd talk about these things and them going through their deaths. And I was there with them and so forth and so on. And they...
respected is that an expression they respected me down they knew something was different about me it was four years to one sister and another four years to the other sister so i was the youngest of the family but as we all grew older as people there was a different arrangement of um
the kinds of things Skip did and the kinds of things Sonny did and the kind of things that Sue did and so forth and so on. But yeah, they were different. What was different? What was different? They liked chasing boys and ditching school and getting in trouble for it.
No. There's a sidebar to that. When I got out of OCS and was on my way to go to the Pentagon, because I told somebody I wanted to do stuff with remote viewing because I thought it was a threat, he said, well, we'll assign you to the Pentagon and we'll You go find it.
As a lieutenant, you'll be somebody in the Pentagon that's on the night security voice, and you have the access to everything and make sure people lock doors and don't leave classified documents out and so forth. I never actually made it there because somebody intervened. But the story about, did your parents ever ask you about things?
When I told my parents I was moving out to the East and I would be in and around Washington and so forth and so on and in the Pentagon and so forth, and she said, oh, well, if you're moving out East, you should look up Bob Monroe. And first of all, I didn't know what a Bob Monroe was. I had no idea. And so my thinking in my head was, do you know how many millions of people are on the East Coast?
I don't know somebody named Bob Monroe, and what is she talking about anyway? And so I'm nodding to my mom, yeah, sounds like an interesting idea, but who was this guy? I didn't know. So I drive out there, and just before I left Fort Huachuca, Arizona, which is where I was teaching at the time, got a call from up at Fort Meade And INSCOM had just moved half of their outfit to Fort Meade.
And the assignments officer called me up and said, we're changing your orders of going to the Pentagon. And I'm like, man, this guy arranged for me to go to the Pentagon so he could help me find out about remote viewing. And now these orders have been changed. And
Well, I guess I'll just have to forget about all that stuff called remote viewing and what I wanted to do and help the intelligence community and so forth and so on. And so I got reassigned up to Fort Meade and went behind the green door, as they say.
I was teaching at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and a friend of mine, Rob Cowart, and I found Putoff's book, MindReach, where they published all of their remote viewing studies, as much as the CIA would let them publish that. And I got a hold of that book, and Rob and I would look at it. Look what they say in here about this.
Both of us were counterintelligence specialists and doing inspections in different countries and so forth and so on. We don't check for this. We don't see if anybody is remote viewing our army units. Ding! Something happened. And so I went to the colonel down there just before I went to OCS, and he said, well, you keep your nose clean, you come on back here, Sergeant Atwater.
I'll see if I can get you any assignment you want. When you come back here as a lieutenant, you be ready to tell me what you want to do. And so, meanwhile, months ago, Rob Cowart and I were talking about this book from Puthoff, and we were like, We're counterintelligence specialists and we're not doing anything about this. You know, we're not climbing in people's attics or whatever we do.
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