Every year at the beginning of September, the base opens its gates to the locals and lets them see and experience American culture for two days. Last year they did not have one due to a lack of funds, but this year it was back on and it was alot of fun even for us Americans. Both Andrew and I worked much of the weekend manning different booths...his for DFAS, myself the cub scout booth, but we did take the kids for a few hours to see the planes they let you go on and take your picture with. Though we see them almost daily, planes never grow old, and being able to go on them was a real treat for the kids.
Japanese fighter jet and pilot
F-16
If we hop to the states, this is what our seats will look like!
The highlight
They did the parachute training as well, which is always super cool
What I did not take photos of was the hoards of people! Thousands upon thousands came to eat burgers and steak, to buy American box cakes, freezies and bags of chips. It was insane. Security was tightly controlled, but it was so neat to see the Japanese enjoying our culture.
Being a family that loves all things aero, we would love living on a military base.
ReplyDeleteMerri, We really enjoyed the pix!
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