[MilCom] Northeast Milcom

[Bill Jasset]

Recent Logs from Massachusetts:   18 Oct 2005

>From the South:

16:30Z

AWACS  ACM exercise in W-105
This exercise had 5 different flights fighting at the same time,
hopefully I got it straight !!!

F-15's paired off with F-16's, originally, the Cajun's paired off
with Cobra's and Lynx flt paired off with Pythons and Venoms.  
Some of the F-16's changed call signs during the fight, not sure 
how the final pairs ended up, it got pretty confusing during the fight.

The F-15's were 102nd FW birds from Otis, the F-16's were mostly
138th FS (Syracuse NY), it's possible some of the F-16's were from
the 78th FS or possibly the 178th FS.  The AWACS back end call sign
was Magic, did not get front end call sign.

AR duties were performed by Force 22 (McGuire KC-10) on 266.5

AWACS coordination freq was 288.4

F-16  Freqs

138.3       Cobra air-air
277.6       Cobra - Magic
141.575   Python air-air
234.6       Python - Magic
138.425   Venom air-air
139.625   Cobra flt - SOF w/acft codes
139.625   Python flt - SOF w/acft codes


F-15 Freqs

264.85    Lynx air-air
234.6      Lynx - Magic
259.9      Cajun air-air
277.6      Cajun - Magic
262.0      Cape Ops (acft codes)
284.6      Cape APP
294.7      Otis Tower

AR freq

266.5   Force 22 - all F-16's
288.4   Force 22 - Magic  (deconflict freq)

F-16's refueled before and after the fight, all but one of the 
F-16's RTB'd to Syracuse after the final AR, Venom 01 RTB'd
to Langley AFB.


Giant Killer Freqs

338.1
255.0

Boston Center freqs

290.3     F-15's - ZBW
299.7     F-16's - ZBW
317.7     F-16's - ZBW
379.1     F-16's - ZBW
290.35   F-16's - ZBW

Washington Center freqs

281.45  Venom 01 - ZDC (requesting direct Langley)


>From the North:

Weather in the northern MOA's still needs to improve, a few
sorties over the past few days have proved to be a waste of
time due to weather. 

13:45Z
104 FS (Barnes A-10) in Yankee MOA
McGruff flt of 2 

139.9        McGruff air-air
303.0        McGruff - SOF 
338.2        ZBW
381.4        ZBW
282.2        ZBW

McGruff flt tried to find some clear airspace in Yankee MOA
to play in.  With no joy, they RTB'd to Barnes.

14:13z
303.0   Java 01 - Hawk Ops

Java 01 was discussing a fuel light problem with the SOF.



Bill Jasset
Boston, MA.