Thanks to all who have served, all who are serving, and all who will serve in the future...America’s future, America’s finest.
On 11 April 1960, my dad dropped me, a 17-year old, at the Fort Wayne Induction Center in downtown Detroit. Spent the night in a barracks there after in-processing all day. Caught a train to San Antonio the next day. We loaded on to a bus and when we got to Lackland, a Staff Sergeant got on the bus, passed out dogtags and, on behalf of President Eisenhower, welcomed us to the Mighty United States Air Force, “now get the hell off this bus, you dipsh!ts.” I ended up seeing some of the world and got a great career out of it.