Reese 88-01 Bulls and Buzzards...FAFAC OT-37, turned into OV-10s six months later

Willy 89-03, John Black & Gombey...F-111 Upper Heyford

Columbus 88-07, then got my #1 choice C-141 to CHS.

I believe you on the spelling T-38..... HAD mine... but lost them in 2005 to a hurricane....

I was just out in Phoenix last December on a trip and went and looked at the "Williams Jet Port"... or whatever they call it now... pretty weird.

01-12 Vance, Corpus, Little Rock (50th), back to Corpus

Man you guys are OLD!!! JUST KIDDING!!!! I guess I can start the younger folk.... Vance 07-01 KC-135s to Mcguire then Pittsburgh (Guard Guy)

For you 'old' Willy students, next time you are at Willy, make sure to go to the General Aviation building (old T-37 building). They have a cafe inside that has used some of the UPT class ceiling tiles to decorate.

Wish I had known that when I drove around there last fall, i would have stopped in and had a bite to eat.

I still remember my first T-38 "I" ride in the back seat with the bag pulled around all nice and snug. It was one of the stereo profiles over to Luke... After all these years I dont really remember all the specifics but it seems like it was a climbing right hand turn to a heading to intercept the 8 dme arc around the willy tacan... interecept a radial fly it inbound and cross the tacan at some crazy altitude like 14,000 then direct to PHX cross phx at like FL200.. all the while with the speed between 300-350 indicated...( probably hold somewhere in there too ) and it seems like that was a lead in fix for a HI-Tacan penetration to Luke.... crap that came so fast at first you wondered if you would ever catch up.... and by the time you took you "I" check.... you coulda smoked one and had lunch before you started the penetration..LOL....

The base lost three birds while I was in training there...days I will always remember..... all in a very short period ... first I was on a pattern only solo in the -38 turning hi cross wind when a Mexican Pilot flying a F-5 in the training squadron there failed to put flaps out off the perch and stalled in the final turn.... THAT was wild flying over the smoking wreckage until we burned enough fuel to land......then just a few weeks later the senior T-38 class had a new FAIP and a stud flying a low level mission up in the superstition... WX was for crap and they hit a moutain covered in clouds..... then right before graduation a senior -37 class solo stud flamed both engines out and had to punch out in some nasty terrain to the SE.... Luke sent a rescue bird to pick him up...... All in all it was a very sobering good lesson at how risky the business of flying can be.

Reese, 90-09 (the Bat-class), C-141 to CHS.

Willy 82-01 No Loss and Boomer, T-38 FAIPed back to Hacker