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Friday, August 8th, 2008
I was a bit surprised to read Georgia had moved troops into South Ossetia and Russia had in turn moved troops in and had started bombing Georgia (CNN, FoxNews, Johnson’s Russia List (via e-mail)).
It’s like Bizarro-Kosovo/Serbia.
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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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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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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
According to reports, China successfully tested and anti-satellite missile last week. This barely seemed to get the media’s attention. We as a nation are going to have to figure out quickly what our response will need to be to this capability. Assuming a regional war pitting US forces in defense of Taiwan against China, [...]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
My friend Mad Max back in my last assingment in Germany had the good fortune to meet a man named Giro, a ranger in the Bundeswehr (the German Army). Giro introduced Mad Max and our squadron to the German Military Efficiency Badge (GMEB) program. Despite the name, anyone in the military could enter the program. [...]
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