Archive for the 'Military Affairs' Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
It looks like Admiral Fallon just resigned.
His deputy will be the acting CENTCOM commander. Lt Gen Dempsey was in command of 1st Armored Division when I was working over in that neck of the woods. He helped me get some medals pushed through for my Airmen that had gotten downgraded by [...]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
From a long way off, I had a very small hand in a very small way in some of this.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I was watching CNN International when the story broke that Prince Harry was RTBing from Afghanistan where he was apparently calling in airstrikes, which is the exact same job my Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) unit in Germany performed. They showed a little footage of him in an interview (click here for the video [...]
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
There were a couple of fairly big stories in the DoD in the past week. I’ll consolidate them briefly here.
We lost an Eagle bro this week; one pilot survived, two F-15C aircraft destroyed in an apparent mid-air collision.
Navy successfully shoots down an errant satellite after notifying everyone in the [...]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Air Force Association put out an interesting article relating the age of various USAF airframes to popular culture historical events. It’s kind of a twist on that e-mail that one university puts out each year to the professors that describe the shared cultural life-experiences of the incoming freshman class.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I’m blogging from Waikiki beach again. I’m here for a short TDY to Hickam AFB to see the folks at PACAF. You know, the sky in Hawaii just seems to be a slightly different shade of blue than anywhere else I’ve been. It’s always green here, too. I’m not sure I’d want to live [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Today was a superb day! Scrappy, Pitch, Scooter, and I were going to double-turn ACM sorties. The original plan was to try to play "ACM Baseball," with Scrappy and Pitch "batting" first sortie and Scooter and I "batting" second. We set up four waypoints in the sky in the shape of a diamond. The [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Today Drago, Motor, Sox, and I flew a pit-and-go pair of ACM sorties. Drago and Boat flew Blue first sortie, Sox and I flew Blue on the second. We had a great time on both sides (so to say).
It went like most ACM sorties. The one interesting moment happened when Motor intelligently [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Today’s mission was to be a medium altitude surface attack tactics flight. Rost would lead our four-ship while Drago led a second four-ship against a pair of actual Red Air and a bunch of simulated SAMs. It was a little benign, but still fun. Red Air leaned on Drago’s flight, so they got to [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Today Huck, Boat, Gilligan, and I went all-out to try to make life miserable for Kane, Topper, Bosco, and Rost. We threw ‘em the kitchen sink and they handled us pretty well.
The interesting thing was we were fighting near the leading edge of a blizzard that was approaching the airspace and [...]
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