Chugalug (your #7400),
During our time at Carlstrom, we had very little knowledge of what was going on in other parts of the US. As I remember, we may have heard a bit about the BFTS (which had been set up at the same time as the Arnold Scheme), but it was only after I got back that I heard about "Towers", and even now Wiki knows far about that Scheme than ever I did.
Of course, we were divided by the breadth of Florida, they were over on the East Coast, we on the West. And we were thinking of little more than surviving to get as far as Basic School (for we'd heard [which was true] that if you got past Primary you were pretty well sure of your "wings").
Off we went into the Wide Blue Yonder (but long, long ago !)
Danny.