Typical day at Chanute AFB weather school on February 16, 1993. Ray Touchstone drives back to class, we talk a bit about videocameras, chatting and looking around.
I arrived at Chanute on February 2nd 1983 to attend Life Support training. Left San Antonio and 70 degree temp for the snow, sub freezing temps and high winds. I was stationed later at Grand Forks but I always felt the winter at Chanute was colder. Thanks for this video. Nice memories. They closed the base about 6 months later.
Went to weather observer school there in 1960, weather forecaster school a few years later, and then tropical metro school before I went to Vietnam in 1971.
Brings back memories of working night shift or "T" shift. The instructors would all go out together in bad weather and none of us would leave until everyone got out of the park lot. Then we were on our own.
Went to weather observer school Aug 63 to Dec 63. I remember that on arriving it was hotter than Lackland AFB in Texas. In the the winter it was colder than my hometown of Spokane WA. For a few months we were in the old 2 story barracks buildings then we were moved to some one story maze of temporary(?) hospital buildings. Every night the call of "Pizza! Pop!" from some local vendor at the exit door would ring through the hallways.
