I wasn't being sarcastic. I loved the noise and smells of SAC and the fight for freedom.
When I left my last SAC base and came to the DC area it took me a long time to adjust to the lack of noise and the great smell from the flightline. I still miss it to this day. Even my wife had trouble getting to sleep without that noise and she even admitted to loving the smell of burning jet fuel.
Ya know what the smell of diesel smoke reminds me of, that smell similar to a truck stop parking lot? Being in the well deck when they were firing up the vehicles. It was vented well but it still stunk heavily. That jet fuel smoke smell reminds me of waiting on our Air Force transport. The Air force used Air Force time that us Marines could never quite understand. It usually was 4 to 12 hours behind our time but it varied greatly, with some times being come back tomorrow time after a 12 hour wait time. Now this was only transport planes. I don’t know about the rest.