My father joined the Air Force during Vietnam, and being from Brooklyn, NY, did not adapt well to Lackland and Shepard AFB in Texas. He volunteered for every assignment worldwide, including Thule to get out of Texas. They compromised and sent him to a Thailand base that did not exist, and the recent interdiction on the Trail post discusses the sensors they dropped. At the Bob Hope show my dad attended, Mr. Hope opened with, "They wouldn't tell me where I am right now, but apparently when Ho Chi Mihn farts, you hear it."

Never volunteer, except for Greenland.