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I'm just surprised they found enough qualified mx females to do this pr stunt. If anything went wrong did they have a all female CSAR on standby?

Shocked to see a Caravan on its back.

I always loved how they indexed those Salty Nation exercises, your base gets killed by a nuke and the inspector is asking why you are not donning your gas mask after the impact was less than a 100 yards from your position. You or your buddys probably strafed me a couple of times at EGUN between 84 to 86 along with the odd F-111.

Wow a A-10 that actually had to slow down to AR or a Tanker perfectly suited to AR A-10's. Remember a few A-10 drags across the pond in a KC-135A on how much airspeed we had to bleed to AR hogs then visa versa when I crewed KC-135Q's on how much slower the SR-71 had to go when we were in a shallow dive to pick up airspeed. Great picture!

Didn't the Marines get the call to grab Scott O'Grady out of Serbia during Op Allied Force too?

Looking at the footage it appears to be this tail no. https://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/McDonnell-Douglas-F-15E/1449488/L/ I remember this being our nightmare scenario during ONW and OSW, I don't think we ever lost a jet during that time but we took the CSAR training day pretty seriously. I hope this is not a bad omen.

Now thats a FOD hazard from hell, I wonder if underneath the runway is compromised.

Facebooking with friends at Yokota , they are restricted to base and they have taken commercial diverts due to a airport up north disabled. He told me everybody is safe.

OK, I'm pissed off, our guys got shot down like sheep without the ability to defend themselves, at least soldiers outside the wire have the means to fight back. It's like that for the majority for the USAF, if the .1% ever happens in the AOR and a base gets infiltrated alot of Airmen go their death unable untrained and unarmed. But hot damn they look good in their PT gear and reflective belt with the right socks. Air Power, Fit to fight, hooah, what a bunch of bullshit. Stop with the pretending of believing our training will get us through the unthinkable at least us non trigger pullers with absolutley no type of training to defend ourselves becides gas gas gas don your mask and shoot a few rounds before a deployment. Until we are trained to at least the standard of Security Forces or basic infantry why do we continue to carry a weapon in the AOR just to be given to the armory and not seen until DEROS. How does a service at war with leadership with a peacetime attitude fix this? Away from the AOR we are in more danger than surrounded by wire. Airmen are now a soft target in the DOD. RANT OFF

The story sez these guys were from Lakenheath going down range, why weren't they going from EGUN? Have they shut down the AMC terminal there? Another question, why are we even doing troop movements out of commercial airports, I can see a small group but a bus load?

your bird is not on this site but if your a mud hen guy this might interest you. https://www.f-15e.info/joomla/

I wonder what happens to all the retired flag officers that are on the EADS NA payroll?

Well lets just say the last Crew Chief/Pilot/Boomer of the last flying KC-135R has not been born yet.

If its holds up to the GAO we just saved a bunch on milcon costs, the 767 can use the same facilities as the 135. The A330 with a 197ft wingspan would have required all new construction for mx operations and new concrete to make room for them on present parking ramps.

Try this link https://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=86-0186

I came across this for all you SAC guys who flew KC-135A's in late 60's and early 70's. NKAWTG.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/3411906/38-senior-Army-heroes-including-one-on-the-Afghan-front-line-are-sacked-by-email.html The actual email is in the link.

At looking at the F22 picture and I have some experiance with the jet he appears to be standing on the crew entry ladder and in the foreground you can see the fuel moosehead hooked to the SPR which is out of focus. It has to be at civilian field because at a USAF base POL will not ever pump gas with that many nonessential personnel in the refuel area. Probably a airshow, you ever hardly see BDU's anymore unless it is a CAP meeting. Looking at those CCT awards ceremony pictures I wonder if the Senior standing in front of a display case along with a Chief and Col has the same build as me, which means he gets crapped on the waist measurment with the new ht and wt standards. I wonder if their CC's look the other way for these guys who are in their 40's but in superb shape? With age you don't have the body of a 21 year old marathon runner at 48, I used to.

I don't know if I should put this on history Friday or here, but looking at the picture on this link of a RAF Lightning final moments before impact in a present tense and if I was there it would have been WTF. Also the pictures on this flickr link are quite interesting if you like aviation history.

Listen to this one instead, the best ever I've heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_KwLvf0is

After listening to the National Anthem botched I had to find this to get that blond no talent out of my brain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_KwLvf0is

The base Comet airframes were all differant from each other making each MRA4 handmade, worse that what we went through with the JStars with different 707-300's all being built to their original owners specifications. They tryed the same thing with the Nimrod for AEW platform which was a disaster which they ended up buying the E-3D.

ehh, just bribe them.

Thats what you get when you have a uniform wear tested by a bunch of AFMC office workers.

Definitely they have Caravans, their new builds have come thru TIK from Wichita for a gas and go on their way to Florida for mods, can't comment on the 172's.