Originally Posted by
Cogf16
Ferd,
Sorry for the massive thread creep! Saw on another category thread about UPT changes over the years. I would have to agree. My Guard unit in Ohio became an RTU in the viper a few yrs. back and noticed a big change in the "SNAP" pilots they were training. They don't make 'em like they used to. BTW, I was Willie 83-01 Raindance and Boomer, probably the best yr. of my life!!! Ah, Willie by the sea. Whenever UPT comes up in discussion, I always say, "I went to Willie, I thought everybody else did. also. I didn't know there were other UPT bases.
Good luck to us all
Cogf16
Yeah,
Still miss Willie. I'm an Ariz boy, went to ASU, even extended a year for a stan/eval position. Five years there counting my student time, couldn't have been much better.......ok, maybe a Luke assignment
I would have been just across the hall from you in John Black flt during that time period. My first student (Mike Sanders) was an Ohio guard guy, and a long story but I was offered an A-7 job in one of the units in Ohio in '85 but went to an Eagle assignment instead.
Good luck and hope to meet all you guys on here after the smoke clears. We can all wear nametags at a mini APC reunion.....probably in ATL when we're there for southern charm school
Ferd