Yes and my father decided to start a family here.  Furthermore, my father remembers those early days of OLF with jets in 1967... folks whining about the jet noise and yet the OLF survived.  Because representative settings and quality training environments matter very much

Sadly to my shame I couldn't join up either before or after 11 September 2001 due to medical reasons.  Sadly also we have COER-uber-allies here at home seeking something a different generation would call... lebensraum.