"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:57:37 -0600, "Danny Deger"
wrote:



I can't say that I recall either name, but that reminds me to write in
some
words on Peter T. Kempt. He was the wing command while I was there. One
of
his quotes was "Airman, lack of punishment is reward enough for a job well
done." This sums up the man's personality perfectly in my opinion. The
wing had just gotten an unsat on our formal review and Colonel Kempt was
brought in to shake things up. He did a good job of doing that. He put
in
a squadron commander that matched his bubbling personality. I had the
"pleasure" of working for both men for 2 years.

Danny Deger


Peter T. Kempf (note the "f" vs "t") was one of the lower forms of
animal life that got elevated to general officer status. He was
eventually drummed out of the corps in disgrace following a bit of
flaperdoodle regarding a secretary and some extra-curriculars.

With a lot of incredible leaders in the AF, he's one to overlook in
the short list.

Or even a long one.



Thanks for the correction on the spelling of the name. His hatchet man that
ran the 334 TFS, Micheal Short, ran the squadron just like Kempf ran the
wing, i.e. "Lack of punishment is reward enough for job well done." Short
also made general and was in charge in Serbia when a pilot mis IDed many
people following a tractor as a truck and trailer. Apperently Short allowed
some tactic of using a low quality FLIRs to ID targets and attack them. I
saw him on 60 minutes explain why he wasn't responsible for this horribly
flawed tactic. He was a horrilble pilot and tactician. I can't wait to
write-up my last disimilar combat mission where three missions in a row 2
F-16s hammered us each and every flight. I begged him to try something
different on at least one pass. No doing. We did the exact same tactic
over an over and over and got hammered over and over and over. He was not a
quick study on the art of air combat.

Danny Deger