As a child of 10, I remember my family staying at McGuire AFB (NJ?) for weeks until there was a plane available for our vacation in Spain in 1963. Whatever money was saved waiting for the cheap fare was spent on a room with a fan and on crappy meals at the sandwich vending machines and officers' club . Oh well. It was still an adventure for me.

On a side note, Rick, it was a filthy portable fan there that began my brother's eye problems. He would stare at it until he got a particle lodged in his eye. It became infected & he almost lost it but was eventually successfully treated by a physician from St. Albans Naval Hospital(NY) by the name of Dr. Richard Raskin later to become the transgendered tennis player Renee Richards (true story).

My brother blames him/her for being cockeyed.:^o