[Loch-Ruadh] Estrella War in Feb

[Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin]

Y'know, for someone who doesn't miss the Air Force, you sure do talk about
it a lot.  ;-)

Padraig

Sean wrote:
> I knew you and Kat were from the Phoenix area but didn't know exactly
> where.
> So how old were you when I was stationed at Williams AFB (now a low income
> housing project from what I've been told) east of Chandler in February of
> 1974?  I've been to Luke AFB a couple of times while I was stationed
> there.
> We used to take our F-5 fighters over there and fly "turkey shoots" (mock
> air-to-air combat) against the F-15 fighters when they were first
> stationed
> there in the mid '70s.  I transferred out in November of 1981 but not till
> after I got married (to my ex) and both my boys were born, my oldest Scott
> at Williams AFB and his younger brother Matt at Desert Samaritan Hospital
> in
> Mesa.  Many of you know Matt as Eric the younger.  I haven't been back to
> the Phoenix area other than to fly through the airport since 1989 and the
> only thing I miss about the place is tubing the Salt River and hiking in
> the
> Superstition Mountains.  But I'm too old for that silly stuff any more.  I
> don't miss the Air Force and I don't miss the heat :-)
>
>
>
> Sean/Tim
>
>
>
> "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand"