Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Fortune was with me today, I got on the schedule yet again for a BFM hop, this time with ‘Scooter.’ He wanted to work on his one-circle fights (Drat! There went my plan to play the fiendish MIL-power two-circle bandit!). He graciously offered to give me a blue engagement, though. I accepted [...]
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Earlier this week, my friend Jeff forwarded me an e-mail that’s made its way around the ‘Net a few times. I believe it started in 2004. I’ll let the text speak for itself:
Subject: Reply from Lt. Col. Scott PleusLuke AFB is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being [...]
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Distaint Cousin Dylan almost always comes up first when we Google the name ‘Penningroth.’ I guess I need to start writing books for publication if I want to catch up!
I wonder who the Penningroth.com folks are? They have a nice house. Christina wants to buy something like that [...]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
My new friend Anwyn passed along this tag that asks us to list eight of our habits (and then ‘tag’ eight other bloggers, which I’m not going to be able to do because I’ve only got three other friends in the blogosphere). I will honor the request to post eight of my [...]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Today was the final day of our bilateral exercise. The game plan for today was for our F-15Cs to join up with a four-ship of F-15Js from Chitose to play Red Air for another large-force employment exercise. It was basically the same scenario as yesterday, except the Red SAM was going to [...]
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Scrappy and I got paired up again today to help a strike package perform a simulated attack on a surface-to-air missile site. The plan was for a four ship of USAF F-15s and our two-ship of F-16CJs to take out an eight-ship of F-15Js simulating Red Air and proceed to the target [...]
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I learned today that sometimes the best defense is your opponents’ defense.
Scrappy, Cash, Bender, and I all went out to defend an imaginary lane in the sky today. Four F-15Js from Chitose were to play our adversaries. Their job would be to try to shoot us down or get [...]
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
Upon return from our journey to the summit of Mt Fuji, Paul and I RTB’d to the home-drome to discover that we were scheduled to fly a BFM hop together! Could life possibly be any better?
We decided to try to do some high-aspect BFM vs a ‘limited thrust’ bandit. [...]
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Last Thursday our friends Paul, Andrea, and their kids, plus my wife and I all took a nine-hour bus ride to Tokyo. The next day we all got up really, really early (that would be early as in "What does the ‘O’ in oh-three-hundred mean? ‘O-my-goodness it’s early!"), we handed the kids off to my [...]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
From FoxNews.com (who else!?): A five-year old took down a rabid fox and kept it from attacking six other kids. Nice going, Rayshun!
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