Oct.'09 . . .another Story :) written to Barbi Ennis Connolly, 57thBW Researcher

US State-side Pilot Training tales; I got my
wings at William's Field in March of 1943 (just south of town &
Luke) guess what,there were noise gripers then also of the P 38, At 9,&
At 17 i think Luke had the At 6 aircraft at that time. A p 22 (the P 38
trainer) had to make a forced landing in a farmer's field one day & you
would think that the sky had fallen in by the way that the farmer acted
& there were no farm items growing in the field. Mel

(Part of a discussion regarding the LUKE FOWARD Team I belong to, to keep our Jets flying at Luke. . . and the gripe that they are noisy when they built right up to the fence) 20 July 2011 - Barbara Connolly

In Service to our Country through 3 Wars Over-seas and a few Conflicts in the Lower 48 ! I'm going to be 88 soon also but I only got 144 holes & no injuries to
my crew but some times I feel like 100 but maybe it's because I have
been married almost 67 YEARS.Not only was I in 3 wars that took place
over seas but a few domestic ones also.I guess what saved us was that I
was in SAC for 12 years so I would go to the base & the next day I would
be at the north pole, Gaum ,Alaska or Newfoundland for 45 days or 3
months.The point being is that we had a lot of honeymoons HA.

Col Mel Scheier, USAF Ret. is a very special man, he is thoughtful, encouraging, helpful and just plain FUNNY is some of his tales ! I have "fish-stories" that I am going to assemble in a row one day, being a "Trout" fisher-woman, I could not measure up to some of his stories, but he tells them EXACTLY correct, as I got the "Rest of the Story"… the other side of the coin, so to speak from his sons :) It has been amazing and fun both to hear the same story told from the father's memory and then from the sons memories! Thank YOU Col Mel… Blessings, Barbara

Milburn D Scheier