"Vince" wrote in message
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Daryl Hunt wrote:
"Vince" wrote in message
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TMOliver wrote:
"Vince" wrote ...

Spies get shot at all the time
Doesn't make it a "battlefield"
they were CIA flights

I guess they forgot to tell you that those VFP-62 pilots were in Navy
flight
suits flying USNavy a/c - big bright stars and all - out of NAS Key
West,
JAX or off CVA decks.

TMO


the U-2 flights were cia

No, Vince, they were Air Force. Although the data collected is "share"
with
the CIA and other branches of the Government.



Operational history

Though both the Air Force and the Navy would eventually fly the U-2, it
was originally a CIA operation. Due to the political implications of a
military aircraft invading a country's airspace, only CIA U-2s conducted
overflights. The pilots had to resign their military commissions before
joining the CIA as civilians, a process they referred to as "sheep
dipping".[1]

You show nothing to the fact that people resigned to fly for the CIA.
Meanwhile, you are confusing Air America that operated in Loas and Cambodia
where AF people took a 6 mo leave of absence from the service to serve
there. And, you can trust me, there were no U-2 flights by those folks nor
were any supported by those folks and no medals given.



overflights were always CIA operations

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol4...hoto_Gap_2.htm


there were ongoing "turf battles" over the COMOR and idealist programs

Vince, the CIA shares the U-2 Overflight information along with the various
other Spook....er.... Intel Agencies and that includes the AF, Navy and Army
as well. But the pilots have always been primarily AF pilots with a little
Navy and Marines thrown in for giggles.