TH,
Lackland (BT only) was memorable for one reason: Lost 42 pounds in 6 weeks.
Wish I was carrying around only that final amount of weight today.
Don in SoCal
I was 5'10, 125 lbs when I went to basic, 145 lbs when I got out of basic, and 165 lbs when I was discharged. I got to 229 lbs when diagnosed diabetic. Last night I weighed 181.
I was also only at Lackland for BT, then Lowry AFB in Denver, it was Tech School where the Intelligence school I attend was at, little over 6 months course, classes 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 6 months.
The minimum grade for each test was 80% or higher to pass, get below 80% twice you fail the course, there were multiple tests each week plus the final.
If you got below 80% twice on tests you failed the course and you were then sent to a different less desirable tech school.
I got a 78 on one test midway through course so I had to study hard to not get below 80 again. I wanted Intelligence because they had their own photo labs and I loved photography.
Once I passed course and was assigned I asked my commanding officer incharge of the Intelligence office I was in if I could use lab after hours, he told me no problem, the more I learned the better it was. Film was free, photo paper was free, and lab was free. I got where the smallest size I would print was 8×10".
I bought a 35 mm Canon AE1 FTQL as 1st good camera, all the lenses (fish eye, wide lens and 400 mm telephoto lens.
I also bought a Yashika Mat-124, a 2 1/4" × 2 1/4" twin lens reflex camera, really good for portrait pictures, with the 2 1/4 format you could blow pictures up really large due to large negative with out picture falling apart.
I also found it a great way to meet beautiful women, I would walk up to a beautiful girl, tell her how beautiful she was, tell her I was photographer and ask her if I could take some pictures. The ones who said yes about 50%, I would print and give them 8x10"s. I started doing portfolios for girls who were trying to break into modeling.
