[cyclotic]

I'm actually getting more involved than I wanted to. Loving every minute and thoroughly impressed by the entire organization. We live near an Air National Guard Base and are on schedule to be the first group for a tour since 9-11.

Of course, since according to JF'inK they are not real pilots and their service to America does not count, I gues we should'nt waste out time going.

Every time I see a F-16 scream over my house, I laugh at these weekend warriors playing pilot and complain about the noise...NOT. I realize that that sound is the price of freedom.

[Tax-chick]

I'm actually getting more involved than I wanted to.

LOL - that seems to happen to everyone! We have 4 sons now ... we'll never get away!

The Guard unit back in Tulsa had recently been deployed to the Middle East for several months. I was very impressed with them, and I've spent most of my life around military pilots - Navy brat, and then Civil Service with the Air Force. The Guard pilots were the real thing ... you don't survive in those planes any other way.