Category Archives: F-16 Operations

     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.  … Continue reading →

     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 … Continue reading →

     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 … Continue reading →

     Tonight was the first time in my F-16 career that I got to fly back-to-back night sorties.  It was also the first time since about April 2002 that I got to fly night SEAD with NVGs.  To say I … Continue reading →

     I flew three times this past week, but always as Red Air.  Oh, well, it’s better than not flying at all.      On one of the Red Air sorties, we got to use the practice jamming pod.  That made … Continue reading →

     Today’s exercise was a simulated Destruction of Enemy Air Defense mission in the good ‘ol DMT (Distributed Mission Trainer, the current fancy name for "simulator").  Huck, Beast, Nash, and I went up against a plethora of SAMs, ZSU-23-4s, AAA, and MiGs.  … Continue reading →

     Someone once told me what WOKSOF (or was it WOCSOF?) stood for.  I can’t actually remember the acronym, but it basically means the weather could charitably be described as fecal.  It wasn’t quite that bad today, but the training airspace … Continue reading →

     Today was a pair of SEAD/Force Protection sorties.  Four of us jumped out in front of a four-ship of strikers and practiced weaving in and out of SAM rings and knocked a couple Red Air fighters back a peg … Continue reading →

     Let’s see, what did I do today to top off last night’s divert to Hachinohe?      I had the brakes fail on taxi.  Then after "New jet, new day" I had the engine fail shortly after takeoff, followed quickly … Continue reading →