imagine 1943, 18-year-old george h walker bush became one of the men to receive their wings at 18 yearsf age, they say perhaps the youngest of any cadets during world war ii to actually be commissioned. there were so many others, for example, 1944 there was john glenn, and among the most advanced of the graduates they would be marine aviators. everybody knows about bob barker. he became a radio and tv host, "the price is right." he received his wings here in 1944. other things and more that you would expect from a top grade naval air station, that describes the naval air station corpus christi. it was a scene with the photographs at all, showing cadets. we were on the map, corpus christi, which had been kind of downtown earlier now becomes the place for naval aviation. after the war, that's kind of a sad story, with such a rapid demobilization and the layoffs. there was a brief period when the base was virtually closed, and then finally reopened with the cold war, especially with vietnam and the helicopter repair work that was so critical for that conflict and all that was conducted her