My mother has a 1st cousin who retired from Ft. Rucker. He is around 80 now. Got his certification in airframe or power plant somesuch at the tech school in Ozark. He worked there during Vietnam going on test flights all the time on the UH-1s. Naturally he was union - don’t remember which 1. Met him for the 1st time ~15 years ago at a family reunion. One of the most disagreeable assholes I have ever met - and a virulent Democrat.
I’m new to the area, I had my ideas about what Alabama was like. Being so pro-union with all the backing they have from local businesses was NOT what I was expecting.
They are getting a kick out of the military hurting from their strike.
What they forget is, without the Army here, they’re just another town without any decent industry.