Mama Kat Thursday: My Other Fictional Life
Today's Mama Kat topic is intriguing. It's speculative fiction about an alternate line of reality: "What if I HAD to go back in time and choose a different career path--what I would choose?" An Air Force Basic Training Flight Photo from October 1975; not my flight, but a sister flight that was there when I was. I wore the same outfit. I joined the Air Force right after I graduated high school in 1975. It wasn't the popular thing to do at the time. Vietnam had only ended two years before and the military was not held in high regard by the public. Only two other students from my class joined the service. I served 4 years and 10 months, having extended my enlistment to take an overseas assignment. My plan from the start had been to serve only one term, get my G.I. Bill, then get out and go to school. The people I worked for loved me and begged me to re-enlist. I was a medic in the Labor & Delivery unit at the time with the special responsibility of...