On 11 Jul 2004 19:13:04 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

Subject: Bush flew fighter jets, but never over VIETNAM.
From: ojunk (Steve Mellenthin)
Date: 7/11/2004 12:09 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Bombers flew missions. Fighters flew sorties

I woulen't exactly call a 50 ship Linebacker a sortie.



What's a Linebacker?


Arthur Kramer

Art, I recall sending you a copy of When Thunder Rolled. If you read
it, you'll find a clear explanation of what the Route Packages were
and you won't have to ask questions like "what's a Pack 6".

And, if you wait until February when "Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights"
is released, you'll get a clear explanation of what Linebacker was.

Or, you could read Eschman's "Linebacker", or Ethel's "One Day in a
Long War", or Michel's "Eleven Days of Christmas" or any of a dozen
other books about the air war over North Vietnam.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8