i was stationed at Laredo AFB in 1969. i was a crew chief on T-38s. what's cool is i might of been the crew chief on one of those planes. spent a lot of time in boys town, if you knew where that was. i left in 1970 for Vietnam where i was a crew chief on F-100s.
Cost cutting and a concern about deteriorating safety of those stationed there. The drug trafficking was really picking up then. Also, Viet Nam was over, and the USAF didn't need as many pilots. Best flying weather of all the UPT bases. Very sad. I was in the last class (74-02) that graduated there. Very strange to see the flightline shrink on a daily basis as they flew first the T-37s and then the T-38s to other bases. Larry Hazel, Class 74-02
I was a Stud, T-38 IP and FCF CAFB MS 82-87. I’m still in touch with many in my class 84-01. Airline to Astronauts..... 38 years of history. Sadly Tim Britt, Jack McGugan, John Karis, and Charley Bick aren’t around to see this.
I was in class 73-04 at LRD. Not sure when they did the change, but T41 training was no longer at LRD when I went through, it was out at the civilian airport. The IP giving the T38 instruction at the beginning of the film was Capt. Gullick, who I flew with a couple of times. One thing the film can't convey is how hot it was most of the time at LRD. Besides the better performance, the greatest value of the T 38 was that it had an air conditioner that actually worked. Not so the tweet's AC.
Although I had no direct affiliation with the T-37 (or flying for that matter), I was stationed at Blytheville AFB in the late 80's and enjoyed watching T-37's flying overhead. It's no wonder they call them flying dog whistles. : )
Thank you for putting this up, I have been looking for it for years. I was an Aviation Explorer in the early 70s and this was on of our favorite films. There's nothing like watching T-38s.
