Base Visit/Warrior Run

It's been to long, I need to renew my effort to write more often.

well, last week I went on the base visit that the detatchment went on, it was a lot of fun. We went down to Luke Air Force Base and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, both were in Arizona and it was a lot of fun to go and see the bases. We drove down in a big bus on Tuesday and Wednesday morning is when we went to Luke. Luke is where they do most of the F16 training and we got to see an f16 up close and it was awesome. We got to talk to some pilots and walk around the plane can check it out. While on base we also got to eat and see some of the maintainance groups working on maintaining the aircraft. It was cool, I only wish I could have ridden on one of the f16s. Some of the cadets were picked to go on rides that day, but since they didn't have what they call chamber cards, they couldn't go. But I anyone of us on the base trip get our "chamber cards" then it is open for us to go to Luke and fly f16s for the next 6 months, basically unlimited rides. Cool, I'm going to try to get on that

then next day we went to Tucson to see Davis-Monthan AFB, it was fun too. there, they train for flying the A10 aircraft, the whole plane was built around the gun that it carries, its crazy and super cool. We talked to a pilot about it and got to see one up close and look in the cockpit. Also at Davis-Monthan we got to see what some call the "boneyard" but I guess if your on base then it's not called that, you have to call it the AMARC, I think that's the acronym, I don't even know how to spell it. It's this part of the air force base that has lots and lots of planes that are stored. Thousands of them, they were really cool to look at and see all the different types of aircraft. There were lots of fighters and lots of cargo planes too. At one point they let us get out of the bus and go and play around on a C5, the c5 is one of the biggest cargo planes every built and it was cool to look at. Other things we did there were: we went to some thing called the LRS, I don't know what that stands for either, but that's where the airmen and officers go to get all their stuff before getting deployed and going out to battle basically. There, they give them their sleeping bag and chemical suits and stuff like that, it was interesting.

this morning, being Monday I usually don't get up to go to FTP, but I did to day. We had to do what they call a Warrior Run with the Army. We ran all around BYU campus singing Jodies and waking up all the zoobies. Its great.