Little Rock Air Force Base

We get to go back home, which was The Rock.

I was stationed in Arkansas, Little Rock Air Force Base.

So we get back, and we get three days of R&R, and they were like, you know, they, you know how it is.

Like-

Um, I spent seven and a half years enlisted.

Uh, my first assignment was to Little Rock Air Force Base, and then I went over to NATO, uh, during Desert Storm.

I was supposed to deploy to Desert Storm, but then I got orders to go to NATO.

Uh, and then I ended up over at, in, uh, Washington, D.C. at Bolling Air Force Base, where my wing commander said, "Devin, I think you're gonna be a great officer.

I wanted to see stuff that people didn't see.

And so when I started doing that stuff with, you know, putting my camera out there and just, just going from that, I was like, "Okay, it's a UFO." With, with that UFO, the, the, the one in Searcy, I, I actually contacted the Little Rock Air Force Base and gave them all the information, so they knew all about it.

Yeah, they knew-

Yeah, 'cause-

And so I've got, I've got tons and tons and tons of stuff and, and I told them, uh, this is ...

Now, this is sort of during COVID, so they didn't let me go in and talk to them at the, at the, uh, the gate.

But I contacted the, uh, Little Rock Air Force Base public service-

Mm-hmm

And that was on base.

We had just moved to Little Rock Air Force Base.

And so throughout my career, if you will, I was trying to find out what other opportunities I had, but nothing I tried really satisfied that desire to wear the uniform.

And we had friends who were navigators and pilots on the base.

So I, I could not get that.

I love that airplane.

Remember I was at little rock air force base and that's what they flew.

So, but the thing is that I figured, you know, all my peers are getting out, they're transitioning, but I said, I will transition, but I'm staying in the reserves.

2005, I'm now upgrading to aircraft commander.

I'm at Little Rock Air Force Base.

And I'm walking across the street back when my eyes were really good.

I look over and I see this guy who's a major.

... well, I wasn't able to...

I was stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base.

Okay.

Was in the 61st Airlift Squadron.