Military Brat Days

[icepac]

Thunderbolt Park does not have a thunderbolt there.   

That one and the A7D with rotary cannon are at Warbird Park which is connected by trails to Thunderbolt Park.

[AKIron]

It's been over 50 years since I was last in Myrtle Beach. A visit is on my bucket list.

[icepac]

They're connected by trails and it's likely that they decided to put the static displays at "warbird park" because it is more visible than "thunderbolt park" from nearby RT. 17.   

Took my dad there and we looked around and I noticed the A7D had a M61 rotary cannon.   

During his visit, he said "I won't approve the skyraider II until I get a ride in one."   

He's still miffed his skyraider #577 with mig kill markings has some other pilot's name on it at the midway museum.

Most of the bases where he was stationed have closed except Lemoore where I lived as a young kid.

[AKIron]

My second child, a daughter, was born when I was stationed at Myrtle Beach. No facilities on the base for that so she was born at the North Myrtle Beach hospital.

Though I was in the AF when all 4 of my kids were born only one was born in a military hospital. That was at a Navy hospital in Okinawa.