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I lived in Enterprise, AL, in 1965 and worked for the radio station there, WIRB. I still remember how you could go outside absolutely any time of the day or night and see a variety of aircraft from Ft. Rucker. Our neighbors on both side of us were rotary wing instructors at Rucker. I remember driving down to Elba or New Brockton and how you could round a curve and see a twin-engine fixed wing landing in a very small field as they practiced their short field take offs and landings.

I was a bit too old for the war, and had three children by then, but have always thought I would have joined if I could have been assured of getting into helicopter piloting.

My son is a helicopter pilot for the sheriff's office in Naples, FL. He has the best job in all the world! Boy do I envy him.

I lived in Enterprise, AL, in 1965 and worked for the radio station there, WIRB.

This piece may be of interest to you.

Good ole Enterprise, Alabama. Home of Sessions Peanuts and a statue of the Boll Weevil.. Wasn't that station called the "Wiregrass" station or something like that? Along with honoring the Boll Weevil, Enterprise put up a statue of an Army Aviator.

I just missed you. I was there (Rucker) Apr-Aug 66 and then again in 68 through 69. During those years the Aviation Advisory circular for the area advised there could be 600 aircraft in the air, on average, on a VFR day. I taught R/W instruments and my sectors were out of Hanchey Heliport to the NE towards Eufala.