Attack of the Bearcats...

 I spent the weekend at Michindoh, a camp/conference center in Hillsdale Mi. I've been going there  many years for a singles retreat, originally called Solocon now known as Single Common Ground.  

As always it was a great weekend with little sleep, seeing lots of old friends and meeting some new.  One of the activities Friday night after services was bowling downtown.  It was about 10:30 PM I left the camp a few minutes behind everyone else and switched to the CD player in the car, I had a disc I burned "4-27-8 Road Trip" the first song playing was "Danger Zone"  and before it finished I'd caught up to the others.  As I cruised through town  "Dreams" by Van Halen began playing so I rolled down the windows and maxed the volume.  Then it happened.  My mind started running. 

While in the Air Force I spent 5 years at Ft. Campbell, KY, home of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, and in it's own little way it was a slice of heaven.  I'd always loved helicopters and there were many of them at Ft. Campbell, the barracks I initially lived in were maybe a half mile from the air field and because the military never shuts down I could usually go to sleep listening to the  "chuka-chuka-chuka" sound of helicopters.  

 One of the units at Ft. Campbell was the 1st BN 101st Aviation Regiment. While I was at Ft. Campbell they went to Ft. Hood, TX to train on flying the AH-64, Apache Attack helicopter, they made a video of the trip and called it "Attack of the Bearcats."  I'm watching the video as I type, listening to the music, thinking of days gone by and  to put it politely the apache is a bad machine.  FTCKY  was a unique assignment and for the most part a good one.  I remember one friend asked about buying the soundtrack, but since it was a "homemade" video there is no soundtrack to be bought.  But thanks to I tunes I could put it together. You could get the music also but until you've seen the video and "experienced" life at the 101st Airborne Division it just be a bunch of songs to you. 

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