Archive for the 'F-16 Operations' Category
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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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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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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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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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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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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