Lt Turney with the "great white rocket", the T-38, at Reese AFB, TX, Class 70-03. Awarded Wings 15NOV69.

During the stay in Lubbock, I managed to do a show with G.W. Bailey, of Police Academy fame, at the Lubbock Theatre Center, playing the Prosecutor in Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Deadly Game. The same year, I went to the USAF Talent Contest playing classical piano! As I recall, I was whaling away at Christian Sindig's Fruhlingsrauschen, or some such flashy thing. NO shame at all.

Thence to EC-135 upgrade school in Sacramento,before being sent to the 70th ARS, Grissom AFB, IN, and on to 3ACCS, Grissom AFB, IN. While there, I was tapped to stage the Winter Bash at the Officers' Club, which we turned into the first of many fund-raisers for the POW-MIA fund.

During my occasional leaves, I'd run over to Newark Ohio to Bob Stegmiller's Weathervane Playhouse and do a show.

Having moved off base into Peru, IN. to accomodate the grand piano, I fell into the company of the Ole Olsen Memorial Theater group, and choreographed a show for them. Jazz and ballet lessons with Frankie and Sylvia Ortiz. A jolly bunch. I was one very un-PC actor at the time. How times change! The base commander got wind of the earlier Talent Contest and insisted I represent Grissom, so, I did, and ended up commanding Tops in Blue '72 on a tour of 52 sites in 42 days! Ah youth.

Anybody out there got photos to post? send'em to wsturney@verizon.net. Or just let me hear from you!