Heiliger Ludwig
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
I’m spending some quality time with my wife in my home-town! If you’re in the vicinity of St Louis, stop by or call and say "Hello!"
Archive for June, 2006
Sorry, What Was the News?
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Megyn Kendall was just interviewing Ann Coulter on Big Story Primetime. (Caution: Second link not recommended for my left-of-center friends. You must lean at least this far right to view Ann’s blog: _ _ _ _ _ —> _ _ _ _ _ _ ). I still think Roger Ailes needs to get [...]
Fini
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Wednesday I flew my last syllabus flight, the 2nd of two Surface Attack Tactics (SAT). We briefed up a set of medium-altitude GBU-24 (GBU stands for ‘Guided Bomb Unit) attacks complete with threat reactions and threw in a little VIS JDAM and WCMD (Joint Direct Attack Munition and Wind-corrected Munitions Dispenser) for good [...]
Close!
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
The first thing on the agenda this morning was a change of command. BGen Rand handed the Luke AirPatch over to BGen (sel) Jones. The ceremony was at about 0900, and it was already about 100o F out on the line. The second thing up was the close air support mission. We flew [...]
Ground Abort
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Thanks * 10^100!
Sunday, June 11th, 2006
Good news, everyone! Weltanschauung has finally made it to the Google search engine and also into the Technorati search engine.
Turning Night Into Green
Friday, June 9th, 2006
Last night was the night Surface Attack Tactics (SAN) flight. It was not really so much tactics as it was administratively getting me warmed up to fly tactically at night. This was one of those painful flights that the AETC F-16 community demands you fly in a D-model with a qualified instructor pilot (IP) [...]
Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead!
Friday, June 9th, 2006
The breaking news all over the world right now is the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, along with six of his associates. Here are some links to news stories: FoxNews.com, CNN.com, Air Force Link, Stars & Stripes, The White House, CENTCOM,and the US Army; there are tons of [...]
Quickened Pace
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Let’s see, what’s happened since Memorial Day? At "work," my classmates and I flew Tactical Intercepts (TI), Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM), Air Combat Tactics (ACT). This week we moved on to the air-to-ground phase and have accomplised Basic Surface Attack (BSA) and a Surface Attack Tactics (SAT) flights. That leaves Night Surface Attack Tactics [...]