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Usahog
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 Posted: Jun 08, 2006 - 10:08 PM
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code3jetwrencher wrote:
Right now the 421st FS is at Balad. They replaced the 4th FS. Not sure what Guard/Reserve units are there currently.
My Old Unit are there now as well...
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Posted: Jun 08, 2006 - 10:17 PM
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The unit involved will likely be kept on the QT until the USAF sees fit to release it. OPSEC issues, dontcha know. Be patient. We'll all know eventually. Just keep an eye peeled for a Viper sportin' a picture of Abu under the canopy sill with a big honkin' red line thru it . 
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| Hi, code3jetwrencher! For F-16 units currently deployed to Balad AB, Iraq, please check out the latest pages of my topic "<a href="f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-4207.html">Balad Air Base Deployment Update</a>"! |
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J.J.
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 12:14 AM
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 12:46 AM
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| We should all be happy regardless what unit it was. Another point for the good guys! Hopefully UBL is next! |
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 01:24 AM
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 02:37 AM
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Just to think that it happened, right at about the same time that pudknocker Al Frankken was shooting his mouth off on Letterman about how nothing is going right in the war.
Hats of to the driver who pulled the plug on that Mike Foxtrot. If I ever found out who the driver is, I'd send a case of Jack to him or her.
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 02:52 AM
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| I know the 187th (Guard) has assets at Balad as well. |
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 02:58 AM
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| Rumor has it that it was the 183rd out of Springfield. |
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Based on the pod video, it's a Block 30 ANG jet using a Litening AT Plug and Play pod and a GBU-12. Good on em!  |
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Zoom69 wrote:
Based on the pod video, it's a Block 30 ANG jet using a Litening AT Plug and Play pod and a GBU-12. Good on em!
How can you guys tell, how is the symbology different than of LANTIRN's? I noticed the arrow points to North though... Never seen that before with the LANTIRN. |
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TC wrote:
Hats of to the driver who pulled the plug on that Mike Foxtrot. If I ever found out who the driver is, I'd send a case of Jack to him or her.
I second that, I wonder though, are they being told that they are about to drop bombs on the most wanteds? I am sure their thumbs don't shake on the WPN REL. |
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Bushmaster wrote:
Zoom69 wrote:
Based on the pod video, it's a Block 30 ANG jet using a Litening AT Plug and Play pod and a GBU-12. Good on em!
How can you guys tell, how is the symbology different than of LANTIRN's? I noticed the arrow points to North though... Never seen that before with the LANTIRN.
The LITENING has CCD, better for day, right? Here is the video I found, don't know if it's the same as parrothead's...
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/video/i ... i_Clip.wmv
(too bad it's the NY Times, oh well)
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 07:23 AM
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| The 421 nailed him |
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Posted: Jun 09, 2006 - 08:35 AM
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Bushmaster wrote:
TC wrote:
Hats of to the driver who pulled the plug on that Mike Foxtrot. If I ever found out who the driver is, I'd send a case of Jack to him or her.
I second that, I wonder though, are they being told that they are about to drop bombs on the most wanteds? I am sure their thumbs don't shake on the WPN REL.
I'll go in with TC on that case of Jack !
Bushmaster,
From the media reports (and we all know how reliable those can be  ) it sounds like the pilots were only told that the mission was to take out a "High Value Target" but not exactly which one. I'm sure there were cheers and high fives all around when the news came out about just who had eaten a couple of precision weapons ! |
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