A high school buddy and my next door neighbor joined the Air Force and became a " Chuck Yeager " type or test pilot of sorts for the AF .
While on leave visiting his folks and I , he told of leaving the base in Texas with anything from a fighter jet to a B52 flying up to Montana for a practice bombing run taking out power plants oil refineries and other targets of interest .
They we had a radar station for the Air Force that my folks won the plumbing contract for and furnished portable toilets for , so I was the guy who cleaned out the " Green Rooms " and just after sun up I was driving the septic tank truck over there when I heard a extremely loud noise and I thought something was seriously going wrong with the truck until I seen a fighter jet make a sharp banking manoeuvre and the pilot was waving at me with a huge grin on his face as if he was saying thank you for being a practice run moving target !
The radar base was shut down and the houses are a seniors citizen community of sorts was what I was told .