"Where'd you get your training?" I asked one of the officers.
"At the Hurburt AOC -- Air and Space Operations Center -- in Florida. Also, we set up this entire facility less than two weeks ago." And they run most of their communications off of Dell laptops.
"Many countries throughout the world have air forces. But what sets us apart from the others is our vast air and space operations capabilities."
"Can you deliver one of those to my house? Here's the address. Say, on Friday between 1:00 pm and 5?" The colonel just laughed. Cool stuff!
"We have to get you back to Travis right now because they are going to shut down the airspace for Air Force One pretty soon." Then we'd be stuck at Castle for the next eight or ten hours, waiting for Bush to finish his fund-raiser. So we went back to the plane. Oh, look! There's my cap. Yea!
"Why are there so many colonels here?" I asked a colonel.
"They have all come here for the exercise. They come from as far away as Kentucky and Hawaii."
"So then the Air Force doesn't just promote people to colonel at the drop of a hat?"
The colonel laughed again. "No."
Okay. It's been a very interesting and informative day. I've been very impressed with the CRW's abilities to handle things in the event of an emergency and can now sleep sounder knowing that we're safe. But now we gotta go fly back to Travis so, as GWB is fond of saying, "Bring it on!" And when I get back, should I try to party-crash the Bush fund-raiser? No. If Bush wants me there, he's going to have to beg.
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