"Defender in Tas" wrote in message
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That was harsh Mr Acrobat, very harsh. Although you did I "may" not
know much on the subject, which at least tones down your comment.

You have demonstrated a serious lack of subject knowledge.

Where exactly?



As for your comments Brash, it might be worth remembering that at
some point in time if you were an infantry soldier you may be grateful
for that gate guard and his campaign to save the F-111.


I was in the infantry and the gate guard is an amusement, nothing more.

I don't wish to defend him because he has been a little less than
polite to me, but I happen to think the role of the airfield defence
guards is a very important one. I know one who served in East Timor
and I wouldn't describe his service as being of less value than anyone
else's.


The F-111 has a strategic role, not a CAS role.


I never said it did. Although even the B-52 has been used to drop
bombs on enemy targets close to friendly forces.

Something the Private (Rtd) obviously doesn't know about. Grunts (especially
Privates) are even more removed from being airpower experts than interested
civilians because they already think they know everything about everything
and therefore don't need to learn.

And you're correct about B52s being used for CAirS. In Afghanistan the
phrase "loitering bombardment" was coined when B52s were kept on-station
over Afghanistan with AAR and ready to drop ordnance on-call by forward
controllers operating with SF and infantry forces. The BUFF would stay there
until it ran out of bombs or crew hours before being replaced by another.


I'm thinking
that, say, in 2008, you might be sitting there in a comfortable
fortified position on the East Timor border pleasantly interacting
with hundreds of Indonesian soldiers who have come to holiday,

I'm ex Army - the Indons in question have a lot further to go before
they
find me.

Well, I said you "might". Could always rejoin my boy.

Naah, he's too fat and stupid.



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