Another thought. Classes. That was the year advanced class 79 was being pushed. So we were all encouraged to travel to take all the required classes for that during our wow year also. PFAL classes we ran in our own areas. All classes were cassette tape ones. Plus all classes were run over the weekends because of the different working hours of the military personnel. Shift work and classes were fun! Sarcasm here. If you worked Friday night shift, you would get off shift, no sleep, spend Saturday in class sessions etc. Some shift workers had the weekend off so that Friday Saturday was the only sleep deprivation. Others didn't get the time off. I loved learing what was taught but I also found that that type of a class schedule was very gruelling. So in that sense I also dreaded the classes.
Plus at that time the PFAL class and intermediate class were both just the PFAL class. PFAL just had more sessions than the ones that had the intermediate class separated out.