I left out of nearby Detroit to go to basic training in Texas. Now, I’d never been out there and had no idea what to expect weather-wise or anything. I’d traveled from Michigan to Florida and back enough times to understand that different parts of the country had different weather. But every stupid cowboy movie I could remember showed hot dirty desert and technically Texas is in the south so I never thought it would be so cold! deb_basic

The whole trip was a mess of confusion and constant motion. Our family had had an early Thanksgiving and I’d said my goodbyes to everyone. My recruiter drove a few of us into Detroit where we swore the oath, gathered more people together, rode a bus to the airport, flew to Texas, shoved on another bus to Shepard AFB and assigned to a Flight. But I was freezing all day long. Can’t really remember much else of that day… and I might have some of that wrong.

I mean it was 30 years ago.