Williams Air Force Base

And she tangled many times throughout her nursing career because she was really a snickler about things.

And so she started out in Phoenix, that Williams Air Force Base, tangled with her nurse there.

And her head nurse, doing what head nurses do at that time because she had that power, she assigned this, what Jenny would describe herself as a small woman from the Big Island, she assigned her to the Thule Air Force Base in Greenland at the top of the world.

Oh, boy.

[laughs]

And he said, "Okay, we'll accept that." And so about three-quarters of the way through with my master's in aerospace engineering, I got orders to Williams Air Force Base in Arizona for pilot training.

And I went to my graduate advisor and said, "Remember what I said.

I don't want them to know I've been here in school, because I, you know, there's guys that, that took an ed delay to finish a degree-"

So you're in college, you graduate from

college, and then you get… I go off to Williams Air Force Base outside of Chandler, Arizona, outside of Phoenix, for those that don't know where Chandler is.

Okay.

It seems like a good place to fly planes.

even think about that.

Yeah.

So besides training the Europeans in pilot training in Texas, two assignments later, I was in Arizona back at Williams Air Force Base where I went to pilot training.

And my job was I was an F-5 instructor there.

The 405th Tactical Training Wing were host to the F-15 Eagle.

We had four squadrons of F-15s and one squadron of F-5s at Williams Air Force Base across the valley.

A total of 120 to 130 F-15s on base.

The 58th Tactical Training Wing were host to the F-16s Fighting Falcons.