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Like my father and grandfather before me....
[QUOTE=Sully;841362]Where Did You Go For Basic Training................
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[COLOR=#050505][FONT=system-ui]Lackland AFB[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
Lackland AFB, July 1974. I was seventeen years old, but the stewardess served me and my fellow enlistees all the Coors we could drink on the flight down from Newark. As a result, I was more than half in the bag by the time I was standing at the top of the stairs that led from the airliner to the tarmac. I stood there in that blast-furnace wind coming off the scrublands beside the airport, watching the heat roil up off the pavement in shimmering waves, and thought to myself '[I]I [B]like[/B] Texas![/I]'
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[I]Me at Keesler Field in Biloxi after Basic Training
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Seriously, I fell in love with Texas in that moment, and after deployment elsewhere, and a little bouncing around the country doing my best Jack Kerouac impression, I returned to Texas in '77 and have been here ever since!
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[I]My father at an airfield in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1945[/I]
My grandfather (West Point, 1920) and father both served in the Army Air Forces during WWII, and Granddad was still a Lt. Colonel in the USAF Reserve when he passed away in 1960, so I was kinda sorta carrying on a family tradition.
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