[leadpenny]

Thanks for the ping, ladtx. I know the feeling of taking your sons to Ft. Rucker.

A year ago September I visited my middle son at Ft. Benning who was in Jump School. We did a day trip to the old stomping grounds. For me it was my "Trip to Bountiful." It had been 33 years since I left there for my second tour in Nam. Many things had changed but the BOQ was still there and Hanchey, where I taught intruments in those TH-13T's, brought the flood of memories. A trip around Lowe AHP, the O club, Lake Thalocco and of course that wonderful museum, and we were on our way back to the Home of the Infantry.

Thanks for the pics, and again, welcome home.

WORWAC 66-11

[ladtx]

Quite an experience. A lot has changed, it really is hard to go home again. My family spent from 1973-1982 there while I was in and out. Took our youngest to see the hospital in Enterprise where he was born, now all locked up.
The old Officers Open Mess where we spent many 5 o'clock happy hours, played lots of bingo, and went through many receiving lines now looks a little forlorn. The old barracks where I was TAC are now gone. We went out to Lowe AHP where we were turned back by a contract gate guard. I felt like telling him I was flying students out of there before he was born but dutifully turned around and took pictures from outside the fence. Didn't go out to Hanchey tho', where I taught CH-47, OH-58, and Aeroscout students. Too bad we couldn't do it all over again, it was fun.

[dixie sass]

Hello LeadPenny! Happy New Year! Hope to see you at CPAC.