Best Moment I was selected, and won, the Honor Graduate of Air Base Ground Defense II Course 3AZR81170-2 at Lackland AFB, Texas; Camp Bullis on 31 Mar 1975.
Other Memories I had won the above honor for being a patrol leader in a simulated combat scenario at Camp Bullis. I was assigned to take a patrol outside our set up base perimeter. Outside the base was a dirt road which led up a hill that would be a great ambush implacement. Realizing this I checked the topographical map of the area and found another, but harder, route to the suspected destination. I took the patrol in the opposite direction of the hill and began scaling steep upgrades to the hill. Just before toping the hill I split up the patrol and had half go around the top of the hill on each side, keeping low as to not silouette ourselves, we met on the other side of the hill and cautiously approached the flat top. Upon reaching the top an instructor called off the patrol and radioed the ambush to stand down as the patrol had come up behind them. Upon returning to the base camp, unbeknowst to us, they had changed the call sign to reenter the base. When we gave the call sign that we had, we were all shot by our own unit.
