Davita: Just a small name correction - your USAF pilot would have been Major Bobby Massingill, the first USAF exchange Captain in the VC 10 years. You may recognise him from this:
He was later my Boss when I did part of my own exchange tour at Travis on the Wing staff in the early 70s, and the connection continued in a way when I arrived at Brize for my VC 10 course. Major Jerry Poole was there to take up the pilot exchange slot on 10 Sqn - and Jerry had been in the same Wing office with me.