[Loch-Ruadh] Estrella War in Feb

[Tim]

Although I didn't retire from it like you did Sam, I did spend almost 10
years of my life in it.  Heck I talk about Alaska a lot since I grew up
there but I sure wouldn't want to live there now :)  I do have some fond
memories and experiences in the Air Force but my last two years in while
assigned to ATC (Air Training Command for those that weren't in the Air
Force, American Toy Company for those that were) kinda soured my taste for
it.  It was kinda hard with a wife and three kids making $1520 a month
before taxes making ends meet and yes I know, if the Air Force wanted me to
have a wife and kids, they would have issued them to me, so I got out :)

Tim 
 
"If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand"
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Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin
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Subject: RE: [Loch-Ruadh] Estrella War in Feb

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"

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