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Ad hominem attacks? Are you an sane? Why would anyone provide thoughtful responses to over-the-top drivel? I'll ignore the backseater comment, as I ignore the rest of your statements when they appear more anger-driven than factual. I would be happy to discuss the Air Force with anyone when I feel they can do so without hyperbole. Sorry to disapoint you, but I drove and taught others to drive Tomcats for a living. If I was ever in back, it was because whoever was in front was not ready to be there without guidance. RIOs are great people, but I was not one of them.

Lately, the Defense Department has tried to fudge. In January Defense Secretary Cohen and General Shelton put their names to a formal After-Action Report to Congress on the Kosovo war.

I don't know about "fudge". Cohen and Shelton seem nust not to want their names on faulty info.

As I observed before, Pukin, you traffic in ad hominem attacks and you have yet to rebut any of my general criticisms concerning the longstanding inability/refusal of the Air Farce tactical aviation community to provide the Army with timely and reliable interdiction/CAS, since WWII. If someone as narcissistic and paranoid as you made it through preflight, much less the jet pipeline [which I doubt, despite all of your noises] then God help the American taxpayer. Your real problem, Pukin, is that a lot of your statements about airplanes don't parse and you bluster a lot. For example, your recent remarks about the aerodynamics of the rotation coming off the bow were just a little off, kind of like chicken wings in the icebox two days past the sell date. Or, to put it more precisely, redolent of the dilletante or the dabbler, or the wannabee, but not of the man who has his own copy of Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators. [Do you have your copy, Pukin, I still have mine]. Finally, one of your lame, ad hominem sliders mentioned anger. Anger at what, pray tell. If you mean with reference to you and your pretensions, a better, more accurate term would be amusement - absent minded, detached amusement but amusement all the same. Oh, I almost forgot -Cheers.