[Gay State Conservative]

it was fifty years ago this month that I arrived at Wheelus Air Base, in Tripoli, Lybia to begin an 18 month assignment.

God,18 months in Libya couldn't have been a lot of fun. Needless to say,there was no AC...or was there?

[billhilly]

Needless to say,there was no AC...or was there?

In 1956 there was no residential AC, but I worked in Radar, so our work environment was air conditioned. There were no telephones to call home on, no fresh milk(Fresh milk came later as well as an ice cream shop.)

The base had several miles of shoreline on the Mediterranean, so if swimming was what you wanted to do, you had all of it you could desire.