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After flying for eight and a half years during high school and college, and taking part in the environment Force ROTC Program at Ole Miss and The University of Texas, I felt I had been well prepared for US Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. In October 1965, I joined up with UPT Class 67C at Webb Air Pressure Bottom in Big Spring and coil, Texas. I could say, without booking, that my year in UPT was the best year of my entire life! After graduation from Webb I had been allocated the C-141 Starlifter jet transport aircraft. I visited C-141 Change Training at Tinker Air Pressure Bottom in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in November of 1966. Afterward, I had been allocated to the 76th Military Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Pressure Bottom in Charleston, South Carolina. I flew the C-141 for just two years. In December 1968, I had been ordered to go to Vietnam. My aircraft assignment was the AC-47 "Spooky" Gunship. I flew "Spooky" for eight calendar months and was then reassigned to the EC-47 Electronic Countermeasures aircraft. I completed my one-year travel in that aircraft. When I came back home after my Vietnam travel, I segregated from the environment Force and began looking for an airline job.
