Archive for the 'Military Affairs' Category
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The first shot in the arm was a really fun SEAD mission. Gilligan, Lt Col Z, Scooter, and I flew out to the training area with my old friend Cash and his wingman Motor playing Red Air. We shot our way in, shot our way out, took a couple extra shots at some theoretical SAMs for good [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Here’s a computer-generated video of the F-15 that broke up in mid-flight back in November via Air Force AimPoints and CNN.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Stalker, Stiffler, Gilligan, and I all went out today to knock out some ACM. Stalker and I kept the Blue role all day. We knocked out two defensive perch sets, two intercepts, and a handful of "Tap the CAP" sets in before we all ran out of gas. We pulled a lot of G’s [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Rest in peace, Andrew. And great job thinking of this!
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Shep and I traded in our skis today for a pair of Vipers and took to the skies instead of the slopes. In what’s become standard ops for me, we were to be Red Air for an ACM ride.
Naturally, we had 2 wing-mounted fuel tanks, while the adversaries had only [...]
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Austin Bay had some words of historical wisdom for us in the Houston Chronicle.
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
In my efforts to catch up on the news that I’ve been missing since the birth of DJ, I ran across this awesome story and video at Blackfive! Enjoy!
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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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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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