Ferd -
I wouldn't know anything about the Tweet being a better trainer because I never flew it; but I do know that the T-34C is a GREAT primary trainer. Of course I would have lost a months pay some time back when JPATS was being decided. I never would have guessed that the USAF would buy off on a turboprop trainer.
The FRS did a strike detachment to Eielson AFB and the dawgs were flown up there to act as low safes and such. They had quite the trip up and back - I forget where their stops were - Whitehorse maybe. Ketchikan. Juneau.
USMCFLYR