Okay, so, on a stopover back to the United States, we landed our plane on a small portugal island that the US Air Force has a base on called Azores, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s actually weird that you can look in every direction and see the water.
Feels like I have been at Aviano for a lifetime already.
Over the independence day weekend, we got 4 days off from duty. A few of us rented a Fiat together and drove the 5 hours south to Rome.
Great trip except when I got mugged outside the Colosseum and my wallet stolen. Other than that, a lovely time.
David, on a weekend home with me visiting dad in Shattuck, Oklahoma. where he lived at the time, found ourselves incredibly bored in Shattuck, Oklahoma. I was 20yo at the time. Recently found and converted from VHS.
We did this.
You’re welcome.
Lowery Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado. Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist School.
Graduation day, Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. My mom came to visit and see me get my training certificate before I leave for Denver for my Technical school training.
A few days in Mexico, our Football team was invited to play against one of the leading colleges in Mexico City.
I was so bored on a visit to dad’s in woodward, home from college, that I learned to play Sweet Caroline in one night on the guitar.
It would be years later before I could actually sing.
The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star – almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster’s hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba’s palace, hoping to secure his friends’ freedom.
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
The sequel to the Star Wars movie. More explanation of Luke and Darth Vader and the planet Hoth battles were pretty cool.