Levine, Richard

Biebrich, Caitlin

Brooklyn Jewish Hospital

Student

Aerospace technical writer

VA counselor

Telecommunications Project Manager

Specialty Fourth Class

1962-10

1965

Richard Levine served in the Vietnam War. He enlisted in the Army in October, 1962 and was trained in Fort Dix, New Jersey. He then went to the US Army Air Defense School in Fort Bliss, Texas to complete Nike electronics advanced training. This training required the completion of a 44-week course. After he graduated, he was qualified on the Nike Hercules Fire Control system, and M-1 and M-14 rifles. Over the course of his enlistment, Levine also took correspondence courses in nuclear electronics from RCA Institutes and ground shoran equipment from the US Air Force. He was eventually stationed at a duty station on Naha Air Force Base in Naha, Okinawa. There he taught himself the Hughes Coder-Decoder Group computer system after he was assigned to work on it.
During his service, Levine was a member of the Photography Club and kept in touch with his loved ones mostly via postcards. His enlistment lasted 3 years and he was a Specialty Fourth Class.

Richard Levine was born at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. He lived in Brooklyn his entire childhood and happily returned there after his army service. After completing his term, he attended Brooklyn College. While there, he was a member of the veterans organization and volunteered to work as a counselor in the Veterans Affairs Office. He also wrote a newsletter and an official college catalogue for veterans. He later worked for the Veterans Office at the Board of Higher Education of the City University of New York for several months. Around this time, fellow veterans elected him to their Veterans Outreach Board of Directors. Levine was also a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America organization. Levine took on a competitive contracting job in aerospace technical writing at Grumman Aerospace where he coordinated and published astronaut flight procedures for the Apollo spacecraft. He then began a career at KPMG LLP. While there, he and two other veterans founded a Global Veterans Diversity Group.
Levine has continued to share his story throughout his life. He wrote an article for 201 Magazine about the Mahwah Nike Base and curated an exhibit of the Nike Base at the Mahwah Museum. Additionally, he has formed a Mahwah Nike
Base Presentation Group.

Arlene, Sister

Ronald, brother, Army Reserve. He is married to a
retired Army officer.

My son spent 5 years in US Marine Inteligence

Levine, Richard. Mahwah Museum - Questionnaire for Mahwah Veterans. 2022