Ah, what fun! Of course that sort of thing would get you court-
martialled nowadays ...
Chris
On 17 Jan 2009, at 17:16, Ken Norton wrote:
> When I was growing up in Michigan, we would vacation up north in the
> Upper
> Peninsula. There were two air bases in the area: K.I. Sawyer and
> Kincheloe.
> Also, the Air National Guard had a squadron in Alpena. They all were
> rather
> aggressive in those days with flying under the radar. Of course, you
> have to
> understand that the terrain is rather, uh, flat in the eastern U.P.
> More
> than once we were fishing on Muskallunge Lake when a pair of fighters
> appeared over the trees and dropped down almost to the surface of
> the water.
> I think they they took perverse pride in scaring the fishermen.
>
> A few years ago I talked with somebody that was in SAC at the time
> and he
> told me that the three bases tried to sneak up on each other and
> then do a
> pop up right outside the base boundary.
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