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Rickochet I was 81-04 at Columbus. first class with women at Columbus--they had weekly updates on their status in the Base paper. They got many extra looks (one was good looking, one had a mustache), but the men were ejected weekly. No wash backs. We had 2 Saudis too, they also had many breaks.
When I arrived in April of '80. they still had the Iranians in the BOQs while the US was deciding what to do with them, they stopped training well before that but whole families plus their goats were in Billeting.
How long was UPT? When I went, it was 49 weeks of training not counting holidays.