my name is robert leighton i was with the united states air force should teach of your command i went through our o t c and i have a long story but i'll just say i went through our o t c and when you go meticulously at college we all have to serve then and they ask you what you want to do marines army navy or air force i said air force and i had a lot of training and they were good at it they were trained well and very helpful yes i did receive specialized training that in that as a pilot to primary after that and then after that i went to advanced training and they ended up and b forty seven i have a picture of one right here for you to look at if you want to see it i went through physical training which i did in school anyway i played sports and then i it was all to help me learn how to fly and not crash to thirty seven they called it a screaming me me because it made a lot of noise and so that was in training and then this here was in advanced so the training i went in right out of high school i mean college in fifty six or fifty  seven i went to san antonio the gateway to everyone goes through their lackland air force base and i they taught me there how to be comfortable the platform and hit on that and so i spent three months doing that and then i went to southern airways and i was  ended up spoke seven months of each level and went through basic and primary and then i went through advanced with the b forty seven dollars this picture i showed you there and they would explain to you about the crash and why it happened if they know and sometimes they did something they didn't but you would so the training went on and on and on ok i went into  several places but to make a long story short i ended up at shelley air force base in salina kansas which i love very much because it's flat and the mountains are quite a quite a distance away so i didn't go into any mountains anyway i saw no front line because strategic air command only comes into action when there's a global light like right now this may be a global well we get we hope not behind the line and put that capability to wage war and it well we just i just got a target and i trained i learned as much as i could about the target and then when the klaxons went off i would run of the aircraft started up hopefully it was just an exercise and then shut it down and that's what i did when i was every feeling mostly and from there i feel should pick me up and take me home to belmont from springfield belmont well i formed a lot of friendships  because you're here in the ratings for the collections to go off to run out of planes or forth and so you're always talking to people and you're playing ping pong you planned pl you build up a lot of friendships that way you mean the world war two where was i well i was  lana kansas is where i was stationed ready at schilling air force base how did i return what did i do when i got home and where did i read i just came back to my folks pick me up and i came home that was in fifty eight and i've kept in touch with them this fellow here on flattened he's a brilliant guy and he was an engineer and he he was killed returning a ski lift to the top and it snapped and it hit him and it was over and then i can wallow say i talked to him all day he was my copilot in the mainly i was with my family and i was glad to be there because i was away a lot in the service so i was going to be home with my family i spent a lot of time with them i had fo four kids two daughters all came to belmont and then two sons and i've got eight grandchildren so you know there's no brakes on these planes you have to fly it up and fly it in behind this tanker and then they punch the boom into your very sceptical and reef so that's  very challenging to me refueling in the air well i've got no bad effects from the military they treated me very well as far as war goes i mean the closest i came to it was i was in terra home is in spain and russia was coming across with missiles for cuba candidly who i didn't vote for but i respect very much because he married very clear because it's cultural differences and language differences and he overcame all that needs said to turn that ship around and go bring it back to russia don't put those missiles in cuba and to be facing us and so i did i was ready to attack don't know if they're going to turn around now but they did turn around and the missiles went back to russia when i was a little boy in the sandbox with one toy because it was a depression back then  and i was lucky to have a choice and about once a month a plane would fly by in those days now so every week a plane to go by there but back then i look up and i wish i was that guy flying an airplane boy he's like he is very lucky and i stay with that dream i never told him because i thought they'd laugh at me here i am in a sandbox and i want to fly a plane so but i kept that dream and i went into the everybody had a service and that you have this one 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