Japan Boom, San Antonio GC Community grows
 

Well, gotta love Military Efficiency. My assignment apparantly has been changed from the 390th IS, Kadena Japan to the 690th ISS, Lackland. So in october, i'm going back to where it all began on 20 April...thankfully this time, it's as permanent party :)

I heard that there was a GC party being planned in my honor???

Woo hoo.

Party? San Antonio? When? [/song of the party bird ;)]

Anyways, welcome to the Alamo City (from a former resident of the second-largest city in Texas)!

Gonna be quite a bit different being perm-party at Lackland, watching all the trainees (basic and tech school) wearing reflective armbands and waving 'Lackland Light Sabers' (flashlights with wands all trainees had to have at all times when on base at night.) Just resist the temptation of 'beating' trainees senseless... ;) :) :D

But then you'll be far away from the trainee action - AIA (Air Force Intelligence Agency) has its own compound on the former Kelly AFB side of Lackland. Welcome to the land of 'spooks'.... :)

While I am sorry that your Japan assignment fell through, I'm glad the Air Force had the good sense to return you to Texas.
Hey, there's fun people here!

Are you forgetting that i'm still in training and sporting the Lackland Light Saber here at Keesler when I march back from class at 00:00????

How much longer before you finish tech school? They still have the phase system* for tech school students?

* As a transition for tech school students freshly arriving from the strictly-regimented atmosphere of Lackland AFB and basic training, students were placed on a three-phase system, gradually increasing privileges as time went on.

In Phase I, you couldn't wear civilian clothes or leave the confines of the dorms after duty hours. Phase II allowed the use of the Airmen's Club on weekends, civvies in the dorms off duty, but you were still restricted to the base. You were allowed to go off base on weekends, so long as you signed out at the CQ (charge of quarters) desk and returned before curfew. In Phase III you were essentially treated as permanent party; wear civilian clothes off duty, no restrictions on where you could go on or off base except to return before curfew.

Some were crafty enough to participate in that (in)famous sport of 'phase-busting'. Basically, this was trying to sneak into the next phase before you were entitled to. Get caught, and you could get rolled back a phase or two.