Archive for the 'USAF' Category
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Not that I’ve been posting a lot lately, but I’m going to be mostly offline for the next 7-10 days. We’re getting ready for one of those "Major muscle movements" that occurs every 18-36 months in the life of a government employee in my line of work.
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
I’ve done a reverse MacArthur. I have returned from the Philippines.
As it happened, I rolled home and straight into an exercise! I’d like to say I swapped my ‘Battle Rattle’ for a chemical defense ensemble, but rather the chemical defense ensemble went on underneath the Interceptor body armor. Mercifully it’s [...]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The best thing about this deployment was meeting this guy:
. . . At least according to him! You know how these young folks can be brash sometimes.
You’re doing great work, AJ! Keep it up! [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I’ve found it nearly completely unnecessary to wear this stuff in the current theater. The primary danger is from pickpockets.
I can’t believe I traded in a G-suit for kevlar!
Update 11 Apr 2008: Due to popular demand to know which one of these fighter pilots-turned [...]
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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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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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