Wish I Could Be There

Red Wings TeeVee takes a trip out to Selfridge ANGB just northeast of Dee-troit in honor of "Military Appreciation Night" at The Joe this evening.  The clip contains some medium grade plane pr0n which is why I'm posting it, among other things (like nostalgia for Former Happy Days).

Well.  We sure would like to be at The Joe tonite, if only to get one of those cool Red Wings dogtags.  Not to mention the hockey, of course.

That said... I feel a major digression comin' on.  It's good to see Selfridge has a mission again... flying KC-135s and A-10s.  The base had no mission at all back in the day when I lived in Deetroit... other than hosting drill weekends and the like... and was on and off the BRAC list several times (IIRC).  Still and even I was grateful for the commissary and BX at Selfridge and made a pilgrimage out that way every month without fail.  It's good to see the Michigan ANG back in the fight.  

Apropos of nothing... Selfridge used to be the home of Air Defense Command's (ADC) 661st Radar Squadron back in the day (as well as ADC interceptor squadrons).  I could have been stationed there once upon a time and it would have been a plum assignment, seeing as how it was in the Metro Deetroit area.  Most radar sites were off on top of mountains and in other gawdfersaken locations strung around the periphery of these United States.  Somehow or other I wound up in those kind o' places during the radar phase of my career... the luck o' the draw, and all that.  There are those who would consider North Bend AFS, Oregon to be a plum assignment, however.  And I will admit life there was very, very good.