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Wow. You'd think the co-pilot would have just given him a hand.

Who cares? He raped a woman.

The endless blinking continues!!

And that's why you'll never be a general!

In all honesty, anyone who says this neither has the clearance or need-to-know to even be informed on exactly what the Lightning does bring to the table, nor the knowledge/experience to understand what that stuff it has means to the missions Lightning will be tasked with accomplishing. There are a lot of things that are not so great about the Lightning. To cast those deficiencies into believing that it is not worthy of replacing the Viper and Hog is just ignorant. To even think that the legacy platforms are even remotely equipped to deal with the threats of the next 20-30 years that Lightning and Raptor will have to deal with it just ludicrous. With that kind of logic, let's go dig out the A-1s and O-2s from the boneyard so we can really go to town in the CAS world. Let's park all of those F-16CJs and whip out the F-4Gs, let's junk the Growlers and get the Spark Varks flying again. These are ALL aircraft where people cried that the world was going to end because the aircraft replacing them wasn't as capable as the aircraft being replaced...and guess what: somehow we've managed to just squeak by with those under-capable "replacement" MDSs. In a double-digit-SAM and Flanker world, the Viper, Hog, Eagle, and Hornet are just not going to cut it with the margin that we need to ensure that we will win with the least amount of flag-draped caskets.

You do know that is website is a military satire... right?

waldo, definitely didn't mean to start a AWACer bashing thread. merely pointing out some funny comm - i'm sure there were valid reasons it occurred, but at the time it was still funny to hear. that said, i've screwed up comm before and i'm sure i'll do it again. we all make mistakes and as long as we debrief it, learn from it, and don't repeat it, we'll all get better. i know you guys are working a job that's not your primary role with less than adequate equipment. i've been flying in this region for the last 3+ years on and off, and i think the improvement has been dramatic, honestly. still some speed-bumps, but it's better than it was. /thread derailment another funny comm snippet from Iraq circa 2007... "Kingpin, BoneXX request killbox 69AA, two-four block two-five." (attractive-sounding female controller) "Bone, Kingpin, unable. Can you stay hard at two-four for the next thirty minutes?" (after confirming with the rest of the crew that she had really just said that)... "Kinpin, BoneXX can stay hard wherever you want for as long as you need."