I had just gotten back from Korea and was with 3/5 Cav at Ft Lewis for about two weeks. We went to Nellis for Red Flag. I was an E-5 at the time and was put in charge of the Forward Area Arming Refueling Point for the night. The FAARP was somewhere in Tonopah range, about an hour and change by Blackhawk. A little after arriving, a civilian security guard came to look at our badges. Mine wasn’t on his list. Into the truck and an hour drive to some shack. I was there for a couple of hours until someone at Langley verified who I was. Another hour back to the FAARP only to find my PFC and SP4 digging a foxhole inside the tent. But that’s another story.
Sounds about right. Wonderful time in the desert. . .hah!