To texas38;
Hi marilyn. I did my basic training at Sheppard Field, just outside Witchitaw Falls, almost on the Oklahoma border. When I say desert, I do believe it was all around us. Why else would they put a base there. When I wrote the piece on shooting for record, I know Art (cadetat6) knows I was pulling his tail. Art and I have been close friends for a good long time.
Come to think of it; that was the day ( about 110 in the shade) that I developed a whopper of a water blister right smack dab on the chin. Right where Kirk Douglas had his cleft, and about the size of a half dollar Two days later, we had a drill where they put us in a shack,told us to NOT put our masks on till told to do so. They threw in a tear gas cannister and waited till we were all choking half to death. then they said to don our masks and get the aich out. I don't need to tell you what happened to that blister.
Take care Texas---say hello to your pilot
chucktoo