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This is how the 'missing man formation' honors fallen pilots
https://www.wearethemighty.com ^ | 04/23/2018 | Shannon Corbiel

Posted on 12/05/2018 11:56:08 AM PST by heterosupremacist

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1 posted on 12/05/2018 11:56:08 AM PST by heterosupremacist
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To: heterosupremacist

I think the flyover will be tomorrow in Texas. Bush 41 is certainly worthy of every military honor.


2 posted on 12/05/2018 11:59:24 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: heterosupremacist

Always learning something new, just heard on the radio that George HW Bush’s jet fighter was shot down during WWII but he was rescued by a US submarine. I’ll bet it was by one of our nuclear subs!


3 posted on 12/05/2018 12:05:44 PM PST by GMMC0987
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To: heterosupremacist

Here’s a nice one from the Blue Angels in TN a few years back

https://youtu.be/pe7w0WTkt2Y


4 posted on 12/05/2018 12:07:08 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: GMMC0987

We did not have nuclear subs until the late 1950’s


5 posted on 12/05/2018 12:09:46 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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GHW Bush flew neither a fighter nor a jet.


6 posted on 12/05/2018 12:10:31 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: heterosupremacist; Freee-dame

Yes it will be Thursday
https://www.militarynews.com/news/local/virginia-beach-jet-fighters-to-honor-president-george-h-w/article_88dfbfc6-f801-11e8-8a2e-93db25565ced.html

Twenty-one of those will fly a “missing man” flyover in honor of Bush Thursday.


7 posted on 12/05/2018 12:10:41 PM PST by BiggBob
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To: heterosupremacist

My 94yr old Dad, a well-decorated WWII Vet, combat engineer w/ Patton’s 3rd Corps in France, Central Europe, Rhineland, Ardennes and liberating Bastogne in The Battle of the Bulge, passed on Sept 26th.

The York Color Guard did a 21 Gun Salute, Flag Folding ceremony and 4 A-10 “Warthog” Thunderbolts overflew the Internment ceremony at York’s Mt Rose Cemetery. Blew everyone away, because we didn’t arrange or expect it.

21 jets ought to be an amazing sight.


8 posted on 12/05/2018 12:11:00 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: GMMC0987

George H. W. Bush was not a fighter pilot. He was a war hero, but he flew a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber in the Western Pacific.


9 posted on 12/05/2018 12:12:30 PM PST by forgotten man
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“Always learning something new, just heard on the radio that George HW Bush’s jet fighter was shot down during WWII but he was rescued by a US submarine. I’ll bet it was by one of our nuclear subs!”

Ah, modern journalism. Ain’t it wunnerful?

Oh, and the sub used GPS to locate him.


10 posted on 12/05/2018 12:13:19 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: heterosupremacist
Grumman Avenger
11 posted on 12/05/2018 12:13:37 PM PST by DFG
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To: GMMC0987
Not many nuclear subs in WW II.

Please review USS Nautilus.


12 posted on 12/05/2018 12:14:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GMMC0987

DIESEL subs..................

Nuclear didn’t come along till after the war.................


13 posted on 12/05/2018 12:14:29 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: GMMC0987

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)


14 posted on 12/05/2018 12:15:22 PM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: DFG

GREAT photo!


15 posted on 12/05/2018 12:15:24 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: GMMC0987

Oops, forgive me. I didn’t read your post closely enough and your fine, fine snarky comment. Touché!


16 posted on 12/05/2018 12:15:46 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GMMC0987
....I’ll bet it was by one of our nuclear subs!

LOL!
Not only that he was the first to use twitter to communicate that his plane was shot.

</sarcasm>

17 posted on 12/05/2018 12:19:31 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: BiggBob

Thanks, BiggBob for that excellent link!

https://www.militarynews.com/news/local/virginia-beach-jet-fighters-to-honor-president-george-h-w/article_88dfbfc6-f801-11e8-8a2e-93db25565ced.html


18 posted on 12/05/2018 12:20:58 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: GMMC0987

It was before nuclear subs.


19 posted on 12/05/2018 12:22:08 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: GMMC0987
I’ll bet it was by one of our nuclear subs!


20 posted on 12/05/2018 12:26:23 PM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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