Retiree Traveled World Forecasting Weather For Troops

By By Jenni Vincent The Journal HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. - Not unlike other retirees, Larry Mayou doesn't pay a lot of attention to the weather -he prefers to just wait and see what happens.But that's a far cry from his professional military duties, when Mayou was responsible for helping provide weather forecasts and guidance to some of the nation's most highly classified projects during his almost 21 1/2 years in the Air Force before retiring in 1984 as a lieutenant colonel.For example, Mayou was part of a secret rainmaking project that focused on altering the weather over portions of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that extended from north Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into south Vietnam.

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