the ANG
units are much more often activated for federal military service
deployed.

The New Hampshire Air Guard was, as I recall, called up for a couple
weeks every December to fly packages to Vietnam. While this tour of
duty would no doubt be sneered at by the Good People who never in
their lives put on a uniform, it did serve a purpose.

In Vietnam in 1964, I fell into conversation with a C-123 pilot who'd
been stationed next door to me at (then) Pease AFB. He'd been flying
B-52s (I think) and was really really annoyed when he found himself
assigned to an aerial pickup truck in Vietnam. Some of his SAC mates,
he said, had gotten out of the service rather than suffer the
indignity. But he had concluded that flying for the air force was
better than not flying for the air force, so he took the assignment
and found himself enjoying it.

It ain't how you got there that matters, it's how the do the job once
you're there.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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