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To: blam
"US planes went to an orbit point in preparation for an intercept that never occurred because the Bears didn't get close enough," said Admiral Robert F. Willard, employing a slang term for the Russian planes.

Official NATO callsigns don't equal "slang".

7 posted on 08/10/2007 5:44:26 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: SampleMan
Official NATO callsigns don’t equal “slang”.

This was written by a reporter, which is a synonym for “almost a human vegetable, but dumber”.
9 posted on 08/10/2007 5:53:06 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Come over to the Dark Side. We have cookies.)
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