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I've been to San Angelo once.

Fall of 1990, a warrant officer and I were flying an Apache from the factory in Mesa, AZ, to Dover AFB, DE, for it to be loaded on a C-5 and sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield.

Our first day was to be Mesa to Fort Hood. We had left Mesa in the afternoon, so it was dark on the Biggs AAF (at El Paso) to Ft. Hood leg. Ahead of us, the sky was full of lighting from as far north to as far south as we could see. So we turned back to San Angelo to spend the night. The people at the San Angelo airport's Fixed Base Operator were great. They took us to a motel in town and picked us up in the morning. They had the Apache refueled when we got to the airfield.

Nevertheless, getting into Fort Hood late morning of Day 2 instead of nighttime of Day 1 put us half a day behind, and we were never able to make it up. We pushed through bad weather all the way, spending the next night in St. Louis, and getting leaving late in really, really bad weather the next morning. We ended up getting to Dover about an hour too late for our Apache to get loaded on the scheduled C-5.

Anyway, I got to see San Angelo, which I had known of from this song since I was 7-8 years old.