Osan Air Base

So then we switched and we started paying it up a second time.

And then I want to let him tell the story of our experience when he was stationed at Osan Air Base in Korea, where he was also working as a volunteer chaplain for the Air Force, but where we went to a small Korean church.

Okay, so I was assigned to Osan Air Base.

And we had actually a state chaplain back then, but he had to actually transfer and reassign to another base.

So there was no chaplain on base who was 70 Adventists.

But they need to have a sponsor.

So since we didn't have any chaplain, I became chaplain for them, and we had to share a message every Sabbath.

And on the other hand, we attended Songtan Church, That's the nearest state church near Osan Air Base.

And so we went out there.

We were going to the Cooney Range, which is just off the coast of, you know, south of Kimpo, south of Seoul and west of Osan Air Base where I was stationed.

And we went out there.

And my job as an instructor trainee was not only to fly a good jet, not only to drop good bombs, but to explain what I was doing when I was doing it and to be able to diagram what I was doing while I was doing it.

He knew by 18 months I was going to be leaving.

He said, if you want to fly air-to-air, you need to get to Osan, Korea.

I have about two, two and a half hour flight from Kadena up to Ulsan.

Because that is the last remaining F-4E air superiority squadron in the entire United States Air Force.

How do I get there? He says, well, it's going to take some work.

So I'll save you the details are in the book.

But, you know, a year later, less than a year later, I get orders to go to Osan.

It took a lot of legwork to get up there.

We have National Gumbo Day.

W- I've had gumbo once, and that was after I, um, [laughs] after New Year's Eve, going into the new year when I was down in, before going to Osan Air Base back in 1984.

And, um, the gumbo did not look good, but it, it, w- later on it tasted pretty decent.

It was pretty good stuff.

Like a force posture like that.

Like we're used to, like I was stationed at Osan Air Base in Korea, you know, when I was in the military, that is the force posture for a bygone era.

Like when precision guided munitions didn't dominate war making.

This is a shift that changes everything about geopolitics.