Random Wonder of the Day
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
I keep checking in with Amazon.com every month or so, always with the same result. Cheers season 9 hasn’t been released yet. How much longer must I wait!?
Archive for August, 2007
The Great 80s
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Tonight, Kane and his wife hosted an 80’s party! I can’t remember the last time I went to a party that much fun! Strange, the parties I went to in the 80s didn’t generally turn out like that. Maybe that’s because I was a doom-and-gloom Goth misdressed as a preppie with a [...]
ACM III
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
The flight for today was another ACM hop with Kane as the lead and Gimbel as the wily Red Bandit. Since I was the only field grader in the flight, el Gimbel was looking forward to trying to gun me. I scoffed at the young whippersnapper (and fortune was kind in that I [...]
Interesting Thoughts on Journalism
Monday, August 13th, 2007
My buddy Matt has some incisive comments for the journalism profession in this article. Newsrooms across the country should take heed.
Stars & Stripes Goes Flying
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Here’s an interesting report from a new Stars & Stripes reporterette who got to fly at one of my alma matter squadrons.
The Air Force likes to try to make sure our Public Affairs staffs and some corresponding media personnel really understand what it’s like to operate in the aerospace environment. The [...]
Another ACM
Friday, August 10th, 2007
The mission for today was for me to be the ACM bandit for Kane and Drago. They asked me to pretend to be a Su-27 ‘Flanker,’ which would be relatively easy given our two-tank configurations which would limit our maneuverability somewhat. They wanted three intercepts to engagements and three defensive perch setups. No problem! [...]
ACM
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Today’s missions were 2 x air combat maneuvering (ACM) with Lt Col Z once again. Col M and Crutch were to be our formidable Red Air adversaries. Lt Col Z and I would CAP in the center of the airspace and have the bandits go to either side, and we’d simply fly [...]
Here’s Something I Can Live Without (For Now)
Monday, August 6th, 2007
For all you aviation enthusiasts out there: MiGFlug
Flug is flight in German.
End of an Era
Monday, August 6th, 2007
I just got an e-mail from a friend at my last assignment. Ray Barracks is officially closed (the Ready First Combat Team’s website doesn’t even seem to exist anymore). Here’s the scoop from Stars & Stripes. And another. Here’s an article from the Army web page.
It’s a little [...]
Controversy
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Due to the dearth of comments lately, I think I’m going to try to stir up a hornets’ nest of controversy to get the ball rolling.
On second though, never mind. It just isn’t me!
That, and the only thing I could think of to start [...]