I'm surprised that anyone will go to a base to fly the T-37 as fun as it is. The T-38, most definitely! Will your buddies fly the T-38? That's a plane to fly!
Oklahoma is a good place to learn to fly. The weather, although somewhat extreme hot and cold, is usually clear and a million. The place is one forced landing field and is laid out in square miles with roads, half miles with fences. Just watch out for the cows. And pilotage is a cinch, just count the silos to the town you want. And, in the Spring, you can get into your car and chase tornadoes around, if you want. Humongeous storms. I remember once I went to my area in the T-38. These areas were between 10,000 ft to 20,000 ft. I was over the bottem part of a storm and below the anvil. The main part of the storm was still some 10 to 15 mile away. The tops were above 40-50K. Pensacola doesn't usually get storms like that.