How long have you lived in Abilene and how do you like it compared to Montana?
Just wondering cause I'm a Texan about to be shipped off to Great Falls Montana and am little concerced about all that white stuff yall call snow.

 

I have ben here for 4 long years. I came here via the country of Panama.
I see that you live down in the part of the state that has trees and water. I live in basically a desert. It is to dry here. I have never had such bad allergy problems in my life. Well here is a comparison of Montana and Texas.

Montana: probably half of the state is public land. A lot harder to get to in some areas, but most dirt roads lead to free hunting and fishing.(Still need licence so I guess it really isn't totally free.)

Texas: Barbed wire and no hunting or trespassing signs everywhere you go.

Montana: No hurricans, a few tornadoes( highly unlikly and not in Great Falls), snow, blizzards, ice, cold and relativly warm pleasent summers All these can be adaptable if you take your time and put on more clothes.

Texas: Hot as hell in the summer with an ocassional tornado or hurricane warning. Hail, lightning, thunderstorms and drought. All these can be adaptable if you have a storm shelter and good insurance

I don't know if Beaumont is like Abilene, run by the church. From what i remember from my small town people just pretty much keep to themselves. Great Falls may be different. You will hear alot about the granola eating tree huggers from Missoula that go to college there. You may even get to see the destruction they are causing by fighting logging or even cleaning the forest. Usually one or two large forest fires a year.

Well this is just a few differences. If uncle sam had an Air Force Base with my job specialty in Montana, I would try getting there in half a heart beat.

Later, Duane

 

I take it your stationed at Dyess, what's your job there? If you really want to go back to Montana I'll trade you my job at Malmstrom of sitting in the missile silos.
Oh well, I guess I'll make it back to Texas someday.

 

I'm up at Langley in VA and can't wait to get home!!! I was just thinking about how funny it is that all we want to do is get back home to TX, and all the idiots that I work with say they hated it there. Then I slap 'em when all they say they've been to in TX is BMT and Tech School!!!

 

Yeah my roomate is going to San Angelo, TX (Goodfellow AFB) for Intel school, he is so depressed cause he's from Los Angeles and can't stand the thought of being in a tiny desert town in the middle of nowhere. I like to remind him of it as often as I can just to laugh at him.

 

LMAO
That's where I went for school!!! And yes, it's not the smallest town ever, but it is just small enough to have but a small mall, and nothing else around to go to!!! I must say that I kinda enjoyed myself while there though. Just being in TX was worth it!! Something about the ppl back home that ya miss!! Virginia folks have something to learn from 'em!!

 

Hello all

Didn't know there were so many people in the military on this sight. I am a hydraulic mechanic. And you can keep your job in the silo's. Kind of a dead end job isn't it?? pun intended.
Trying to go to Fairchild, closer to home than even Malmstrom. Been here 4 years and still haven't figured out the saying "It's a Texas thang" Funniest liscense plate I have seen was from a guy from alaska. It read 2xTX. I guess size maters to some. When I came here the first time, Tech school wasn't in Tx. We flew to Illinoise. Probably spelled that wrong. After sweating our butts off here we all got shipped up north and froze our Nutts off there. Still trying to figure out why I picked this assignment??? Texas is all right. But I still haven't figured out why so manny people brag on it so much.

 

It's a TX thang! Sorry! Had to.....

 

San Antonio here....

'02 SuperDuty F-350, 35" buckshot mudders, Diablo Delta 54/78hp flip switch


'70 Ford Bronco.. in the works... 302, 5.5" lift, more pictures to come

 

Galveston - College Station TX

 

Cut and Shoot

 

Born and raised in Arlington, TX. Currently living in Colorado Springs, but that's only temporary; I'll always be a Texan.
1983 Ford Bronco, 4.9L Straight Six, Howell Throttle Body Injection, Rancho 4" Suspension Lift, 35x12.50 BFG A/Ts.

Mike Jones
1983 Ford Bronco

 

I've been to Colorado Springs before. I also went to Cripple Creek while I was up there. Pretty country but they kinda look at you funny if you come in and talk with an accent. Are you at the Air Force Academy? I was only there for 3 days so I didn't see alot more than the falls and Cripple Creek and a pizza place with a bar and pool hall that was pretty cool. It boasted to having 101 different kinds of beer on tap I believe, but don't quote me on that becuz this was over a year ago I went.

Well, welcome to the Tx room!

 

I know there is a michael jones up here at the AF Academy but thats probably a pretty common name so it cuold be somebody else. And that place your talking about with the 110 beers is called old chicago's, its pretty good but even with all those beers they are still missing the most important one...Lonestar.

 

Yes, I am at the Air Force Academy. Josh, maybe I'm the Michael Jones you know? Of course, I'm gonna need to know a little more about you. Let me know.

Mike Jones
1983 Ford Bronco