[MRCA] Happy belated Birthday!!
KE4DRJ
ke4drj at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 19:23:49 EDT 2020
We had some Vermont guard f-16's at Shaw AFB running the alert pad for a
while. Great crew.
73 Joey ke4drj
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 12:55 KA1LHZ <sboard.ka1lhz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I almost forgot. I was F-15 avionics 27th AMU (radar, navigation and
> weapons delivery) on active duty and then the same on F-16s in the 158th
> Vermont Air National Guard Green Mountain Boys
>
> 73
>
> DE KA1LHZ
>
>
>
> On 9/19/20 10:03 AM, Rich Arland wrote:
>
> You got that right. JDAMS weren't around when I was in (1967-87) but
> PAVETAC certainly was!!! Just ask Quadifi!!! Operation Eldorado Canyon was
> not a rousing success but it certainly proved the guided munitions had a
> future in the air war. Gotta love the F-111F (learned to fly one at RAF
> Lakenheath in the early 80s thanks to a good friend on 494TFS Stan
> Eval....had to show time on the 111F sim....had more than a few hours
> logged on a $40 million video game!!)
>
> *Vy 73*
>
> *Rich K7SZ*
>
> "*The vast majority of the world's problems can be overcome with the
> proper application of high explosives!"***
>
> *(SSgt Jon Nelson, 5th Special Forces Group, Airborne) *
>
>
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> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of KE4DRJ <ke4drj at gmail.com>
> <ke4drj at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 19, 2020 12:59 AM
> *To:* mrca at mailman.qth.net <mrca at mailman.qth.net> <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [MRCA] Happy belated Birthday!!
>
> I missed it to. Happy birthday to the USAF. I was an f-16 crew chief, good
> times. ( solved a lot of problems with a 2000lb jdam).
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 00:49 Rich Arland <k7sz at live.com> wrote:
>
> Don't know HOW I missed this one!!!
>
> 18 Sept 1947 the US AIr Force was born!!
>
> Happy Birthday to all the USAF members, active, retired and veterans!
>
> Nothin' like dumpin' some iron on the bad guys from 35 thousand feet!!!
>
> *Vy 73*
>
> *Rich K7SZ*
>
>
> *MSgt USAF (ret) *
>
> "*The vast majority of the world's problems can be overcome with the
> proper application of high explosives!"***
>
> *(SSgt Jon Nelson, 5th Special Forces Group, Airborne) *
>
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