I recall being stationed at Camp Shelby MS, just outside Hattiesburg.
Everyone KNEW that the only reason we were there for five months was to pump Federal money into Trent Lott’s constichiency...
Not to divert this thread, but I too pulled duty at Camp Shelby for a couple of weeks in the late 70s doing flight ops for a Medevac unit. The mosquitoes were so large they needed their own air traffic controllers. With the heat, mosquitoes and the missions we flew, never even thought about Lott.