10 Weeks at Chanute: A Discovery in Ruins

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10 Weeks at Chanute: A Discovery in Ruins

In 1992, an aimless young man joined the Air National Guard and traveled to Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois to learn jet-engine maintenance. He became one of the last airmen trained at the historic installation before its gates closed forever and the base slowly became a modern ruin. Ren Garcia’s humorous, candid, and occasionally ribald memoir recalls ten formative weeks of military training, the friends and experiences that helped him grow, and the lasting sorrow of returning years later to find a place he loved abandoned to time.