[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.

[LadyX]

"Didn't go out to Hanchey tho', where I taught CH-47, OH-58, and Aeroscout students"

Please be sure to read my Reply # 28, ladtx.

It was an OH-58 that was shot down in Iraq, piloted by the female from South Carolina who perished.

To add insult to injury, she is described merely as a 'soldier' whose life was lost.