[mikester]

Air Force brat here - I loved it. Dad started out as a mechanic, moved up to crew chief for f-4s and then became a flight engineer for c-130s out of hurlbert field. He was in Iran for a certain episode during the carter administration. In the mid 80's he got a gig as flight engineer for the new KC-10 Extender and we moved out to California. He did his 20 and retired into the civilian aviation industry working to ATA for a while as well as working as an Airframe and Powerplant mech here and there in Florida. Now he works for Lockheed teaching people how to fabricate airplane parts for various aircraft like the f-22, f16 and C-130 (STILL!!).

I loved being on base, I wish we had traveled more but dad got some pretty sweet long term gigs.