As a border town that is only more than 20 kilometers away from Mexico, the population of Sono is only more than 1,100.

Moreover, there are only more than 400 people living in the town, and the others are all distributed in farms with a radius of 60 kilometers.

As for why there are so few people, even Lao Mo is not many, because there is a 9-kilometer-long canyon on the border between the town and Mexico.

There is also a border checkpoint more than 40 kilometers away. The checkpoint is 37 kilometers north of the checkpoint, which is a municipal city, so those who often travel between the United States and Mexico are generally unwilling to take a detour to the town.

However, because of the canyon, some guys who smuggle flour will use a special machine to project the flour buns at night.

Because of this, when Trench and Barney went to find the lieutenant governor of Phoenix, they used this reason to apply for air patrol.

As for whom Li Changheng will fly the plane after he leaves the town, it is actually not a problem at all.

Whether it is a green beret or a seal these days, although there are not as many training subjects in the future.

But what has more advantages than future seals is that Yue Man has weapons and equipment at this time.

After completing the mission, whether they want to fly helicopters, tanks, or fighter jets, as long as they are willing to learn, they will immediately have ready-made equipment for them to learn and use.

Of course, it is impossible for jet fighters to learn to get on the plane directly, but the limitations of learning propeller aircraft are much smaller.

So it only takes a while for Barney and others to control propeller fighters like P51.

There is definitely no problem with lifting off, landing and ground observation.

When Li Changheng was not here, some of them could take over him.

As for diving down and shooting the ground with an onboard machine gun, that's another matter.

Moreover, as long as this kind of maneuvering action is not a fool, no one will use it on fighter jets that have been retired for more than ten years.

In the evening, barbecue, beer, and chatting, Li Changheng, who was a little drunk, slept comfortably for ten hours.

The next morning, I took my four newcomers to the flight base one kilometer outside the town.

When designing a trump fighter of the second-generation war, the standard for take-off and landing runway is any leveling ground.

As long as there are no big pits, it can take off and land in the mud.

Moreover, the take-off distance is very short, and veterans can even lift the plane within 30 or 40 meters.

The more elite ones are qualified to be on the aircraft carrier.

Li Changheng sat on a four-engineered engineer found in the trench, inspected, maintained, and even replaced many new parts P51s. After listening to the pilots invited, he started the fighter plane.

He drove the fighter plane and taxied around the runway for a while. When the plane was about to leave the ground, he immediately let go of the accelerator bit by bit.

After a big circle, I slowly parked the plane outside the hangar.

p51 He actually flew past the Aviation School in Ohio last year, but this military-powered air combat machine gun, plus the aircraft that had been sealed for more than ten years, Li Changheng didn't want to try the plane himself if it was OK.

After turning off the engine and jumping off the plane, Barney breathed a sigh of relief and said in a speechless voice, "Boss, I'll go patrol. I almost had a heart attack just now."

Li Changheng laughed a few times, "I won't joke about my life."

After saying that, he asked the person in charge of the logistics team, "Mr. Edmund, how much does it cost to maintain this base every year?"

The former retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Edmund was invited by Trench and Barney, who was hired by the former Air Force, and before he retired, he was a training supervisor at a base. Of course, he was very familiar with this.

“Boss, if it’s just to maintain it, it only takes 6 people to run.

However, 8 people are more safe, so if you don’t have much work pressure, it’s not easy to make mistakes. As for your salary?

All of us who have joined the National Guard have combined, which costs 50,000 US dollars a year.

In terms of fuel and aircraft maintenance, you can apply for Phoenix City, after all, we are a regular air patrol team.

Moreover, as far as I know, some of the combat readiness warehouses are not used up and are recycling more expensive parts than sealing the warehouse.

As for live ammunition, it's very troublesome, but this is Arizona and you can buy any ammunition if you have money."

"Okay, I get it."

Without Edmund finishing his speech, Li Changheng said, "As a member of the Air Patrol team, I will use my relationship to find some foundations to attract sponsorship.

In the future, it should not be less than US$150,000 a year. This amount of money will be left as a fee for extra meals or holding a party.

The remaining 100,000 will be paid twice as much as your current salary.”

Even if everyone here knows that the purpose of everyone coming to this border town and even retiring to join the National Guard is to serve the young man in front of him.

But Li Changheng would never foolishly take out the money and pay everyone a salary.

With the fund donation, no one can find any violations or even any illegality in the future.

As for other air patrol teams, even the above management departments also want to receive donations from the fund.

At worst, you can get money privately or ask them to play in Las Vegas for a few days. If you win at the legal gambling table, as long as you pay taxes, nothing else will be a problem.

Eight people have 150,000 US dollars a year, which is equivalent to 18,750 per capita. This salary level is more than 10,000 higher than the per capita annual income in Los Angeles.

Not to mention Arizona, it is just more than 4 times the per capita.

Not to mention supporting a family, this income level is fine if you raise 5 children and raise your parents and your parents-in-law.

For this group of former pilots and ground crews who have just retired, or like Barney, have been retired for more than a year.

This salary level is already one or two times higher than the salary given by major airlines.

Therefore, Li Changheng announced the fund donation, except for the one on the scene, he was only temporarily hired.

Everyone except for Scott, who was the fighter pilot who taught Li Changheng to fly and was a National Guard inspector, cheered.

For Li Changheng, the most expensive consumption of fuel and parts is paid after the state has paid.

Not to mention 150,000, even if it costs 300,000 US dollars a year, he is willing to support this group of people and serve as a private ground staff member and maintenance team for himself.

He spent 300,000 pounds, or 1.2 million US dollars, just with Anne out for a month, and he could support this group of people for many years.

After getting along for a few years, when I want to buy a private plane in the future, it will not cost much if this group of people can pass the training and assessment of the aircraft manufacturer and continue to ask them to be exclusive private plane ground crew members.

Even in the future, the suicide squad will definitely purchase aircraft for missions, and this group of people will be even more useful.

Time flies for a week.

On December 4th.

Be fully familiar with any parameters, functions, data, and operating rules.
Chapter completed!