Mike Kanze wrote:
"Coors runs" to NAS Meridian, MS from more blessed points west were comme il faut during the late 1960s - early 1970s before Coors achieved national distribution. Pretty standard drill - cross-county a T-2 from NMM to NAS Dallas, Buckley ANGB, or any other Coors-infested part of the west, buy your stock (no more than ~3 cases - the limit in the T-2 nose void), and wing your way back to The Heart Of The New South.

Normal return was ~0300 Monday. You always gave a strato-chilled six-pack to the duty line crew (for later, off-duty consumption).

Many folks will never appreciate how welcome this beverage was in a land of "county-option" liquor consumption and the likes of the much-despised Pearl beer brand.

Dave MacCallister, CO of the old 142nd ftr sqd Delaware ANG was from the
MacCallister Catering family in Springfield Pa. They made what was
considered probably the best Snapper Soup in the entire world. Dave used
to fill the ammo cans of his F86H "Cindy Lind" with the soup and deliver
it all over the United States.
MAN, that was GOOD soup!!!!
:-)
Dudley Henriques