Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Back in October I was browsing Victor Davis Hanson’s website and on the 12th, the sub-headline of the posting jumped out at me. No, it wasn’t the name of the young, troubled socialite that caught me. It was the Ready First Combat Team’s leader’s name posted there.
VDH made a great [...]
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Today my wife and kid went to the Hakkoda ski area with Shep and his family. Getting there and back was more time-consuming than normal, one of the roads up the mountain was closed, and all of them were snowy (fortunately not icy). The Sheps are snowboarders, so it was my first time both [...]
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
When I was about 20 years old, a car drove by that had a bumper sticker that said "Wouldn’t it be nice if the schools had all the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber?" I remember wishing I were in a bomber at that moment [...]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
In case you haven’t seen the news today, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. She knew this would be a real possibility when she returned from exile to challenge President Musharraf, and given the current state of affairs in Pakistan I figured this would be all too likely. That doesn’t change the [...]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
May everyone in all the world experience the peace and joy of the season, even if only for a few moments.
Please keep the folks who are downrange in your thoughts and prayers!
Let’s all keep in mind "The Reason for the Season": This is the celebration of the birth [...]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Christina, the kid, and I took off with friends Deuce and Pitch and their families and spent Christmas Eve skiing at Appi. We had a lot of fun, of course! Having brought the baby with us meant that one of us would have to babysit while the other hit the slopes! Lucky for us it had snowed [...]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
It’s been just over a year since I learned that I lost one of my buddies in the Iraq War. What really makes me happy to know is that Capt Travis Patriquin’s legendary slide show and his efforts at getting the Ramadi Sheikhs to join America in the War on Terror live on now [...]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
I’m going to leave you all with a couple of links and not much commentary on this story from the Air Force Times (and from a magazine my wife used to read). An excerpt from the Times:
“All your buddies are gonna rip you a little bit,” Ripley said. “It’s [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Today was Operations Group War Day! We basically put both squadrons together and tried to do two really large-scale practice missions. Despite being selected to play Aggressor yet again, it was a lot of fun!
Deuce and Scrappy handled most of the planning for the morning go, and they did a great [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Tonight the plan was for six of us to launch out for an early night sortie to practice attacks in two different formations to see how they’d work out. Scooter and I were going to try to practice dropping JDAM (which is unbelievably easy) and another flight led by Hoser was going to practice [...]
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