Tom Gill grew up on a small farm in South Georgia near the city
Blackshear. His father was a sharecropper. Like most tenant
farmers, his family moved frequently to other farms throughout the
county, trying to make improvements in their daily life, and
standard of living. Although poor in material possessions, he was
raised by Christian parents who showed him love and taught him a
strong code of ethics that served him well at home and the
twenty-three years in the U. S. Army. After graduating from High
School in 1956, Gill immediately joined the U.S. Army where he
discovered that there was a better way of earning a living then
cropping tobacco in the hot sun in the summer time. He was assigned
to a communications school as an enlisted soldier and later
received a direct appointment to Warrant Officer. His military
assignments included tours of duty in Korea, Philippines, and
Germany. When he returned to Georgia after his tour of duty with
the lst Cavalry Division in Vietnam was completed, he was selected
for assignment to the White House Communications Agency. He served
as a Communications Officer during four presidential
administrations; Lyndon Johnson, Rickard Nixon, Gerald Ford and
Jimmy Carter. During his tour of duty at the White House, Tom Gill
worked in numerous positions in the Agency which included traveling
in advance of presidential trips establishing presidential
communications for the president. His assignment at the White House
included overseas trips to France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Vietnam,
Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina. He served in this capacity for
four presidents; Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and
Jimmy Carter. Growing up Rich in South Georgia is his story of how
he grew up in the mid forties and fifties, and includes his
twenty-three years of service in the U.S. Army. The years covered
are from his birth in September, 1937, until November 30, 1978 when
he retired from the Army.
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