Posted on 05/17/2004 2:14:30 PM PDT by Samwise
Indiana Air Guard ping
May he rest in peace.
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LIBERAL Will say, US Troops should get of Indiana.
ping
We're saddened over the Indiana Air National Guard and America's loss.
Thanks for the ping Samwise
I thought John F'n Kerry said that serving as an Nat'l Guard pilot during a shooting war was a way to avoid personal risk. And the F-16 is about 100 times safer than the old F-100 or F-101.
/john
God Speed pilot.
Liberals say George Bush avoided Viet Nam duty which would have put him in harm's way. I say Air Guard flying puts you in harm's way very quickly -- one slight error in piloting, inattention, or a small miscalculation can cause a crash with very high probability of death or at least injury. To me serving as a pilot in the military is dangerous, much more so by a long shot, than what Kerry did in Viet Nam.
Tragic! I hope the surviving pilot doesn't feel guilty about losing his buddy. It sounds like he might. He doesn't need that.
My heartfelt prayers for them both and their families, a salute to them both, and a special prayer that the surviving pilot won't ground himself with guilt.
A sad day in Indiana.
Worth praying again.
/john
Or even GW's plane, the F-102
I am affiliated with a newspaper in the area, and sent a reporter to the scene. One pilot is dead the other is safe. For the record, the 181st fighter wing is one of the most decorated in the Air Force, having spent many months both in Desert Storm and patroling the No-Fly Zones. While I cannot say for certain, the lost pilot is more than likely a combat veteran.
God Bless the 181st Racers
It sucks. Even practicing for war can be hell......
Or my best friend's dad's AC, the F-105, "Thud". He later graduated to F-4s. I can't keep track of early '60s AC, I admit. I've generally worked AC from the F-15, F-16, A-10 (and for a while...) SAM 707's era. I watched the crash of an F-4 into Lake Worth. The WSO and Pilot did a great job of missing everything important. I still pray for their families.
As I pray for all the men that fly and fight.
/john
During 1949-50, we lived on Lake Worth -- squarely across the lake from the main runway at Carswell AFB. They were building B-36s at the Convair plant and flying them out of Carswell -- directly over our house.
Giant machines with six props and four jets, they oddly sounded like a giant swarm of hornets. Their low-pitched hum would actually vibrate dishes out of the cabinets in our kitchen.
We got so used to the incessant "buzz" they made that we paid it no attention. Then, one night, it...stopped. All of us came alert and ran to the back of the house. And, there, immediately off our dock was a B-36...in the lake, burning, her back broken.
We later discovered that something had gone wrong on takeoff and the crew had taken it into the lake, rather than try to keep it airborne. Just a few seconds more and they'd have come down squarely on top of us.
My recollection is that most of the crew died in this crash.
God bless our servicemen.
the TribStar? I remember when the Star was a morning paper, and the Tribune the evening...
Delaware Trail here. Maybe you were on Cahoba Trail.
Sounds like we were neighbors once.
/john
This is awful to hear.
/john
Leni
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