BVRAAM As someone who spend 18 years as you say "modifying them, repairing them, servicing them, refueling them, arming them and marshaling them." Sometime we were overlooked.
However those 18 years had there good and bad days. Days which I will look back at with fond memories. I do hope that some of the jets will find loving homes, and not the scrap mans axes. They deserve better!!