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On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:08:18 GMT, Robey Price
wrote: Well since I never flew combat...in the Phantom, I thought night AAR in the wx was sporting, And, then drop off and head north to a turn point near Yen Bai and try to muck around in the dark supporting a BUFF strike or three near Hanoi while they shoot SAMs and guns at you and some fool is mucking up the radio with MiG calls and the beepers are going off.... as was a no-**** single engine approach. I thought compressor stalls at FL450 during Viper FCFs was sporting, as was landing min fuel in a snow storm after diverting. Then again, intramural crud at the O'Club bar on friday nights was certainly more physical. Confess now. At least once you must have snuck into the men's room and read the rules on the wall over the urinal didn't you? I think I can hear Rasimus snorting and mumbling something best left unwritten, all the way over here. Everybody's got their own little sack of rocks to tote around. Maybe he's singing Monty Python's "Lumberjack" song. Unbloody likely. But, can we talk about this parrot you sold me? Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" "Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights" Both from Smithsonian Books ***www.thunderchief.org |
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After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, Ed Rasimus
confessed the following: And, then drop off and head north to a turn point near Yen Bai and try to muck around in the dark supporting a BUFF strike or three near Hanoi while they shoot SAMs and guns at you and some fool is mucking up the radio with MiG calls and the beepers are going off.... And that folks is why I genuinely hold guys like Ed in such high esteem...while you were doing that I was cutting articles out of the Pacific Stars & Stripes about the air war (still got'em)...I sat on the steps of Base Ops at Clark watching transient Phantoms come and go. Confess now. At least once you must have snuck into the men's room and read the rules on the wall over the urinal didn't you? Our rules were posted on the wall abeam the crud table. But as the FNG 1Lt on my first friday night in the sqdn, I called "Balls" on my Ops O thereby eliminating him from the game (much to the delight of every player...except the Ops O). Judgement: None Noted Unbloody likely. But, can we talk about this parrot you sold me? He's just resting. Robey |
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Without getting between you and Kevin who appear to be having a lot of good ol' classic RAM fun, let me state that Robin was not stationed at Luke in the '70s and was not a member or squadron commander of the Nickel. I've spent days going over this in my head trying to figure out how I could be THIS wrong and the best assumption I can come to is that my thirty year old memories of an event from my childhood combined more than one visit to Luke into a single event. I know we were introduced to General Olds, but as a kid, I had known of him as a Colonel, so that is how he stayed in my memory. It would not surprise me if they introduced him as the former commanding officer of the 555th, and I dropped the word 'former' somewhere in the past three decades, or he could have been standing at the elbow of the CO of the 555th and I got it wrong over the years. We were visiting the 555th and that is where the "ready room" (I was Navy long enough that any room reserved for pilots with rows of chairs and photos of gun cam footage all over the place, plaques, etc., gets lumped under the heading of "ready room" regardless of what the correct USAF term may be) event took place. But, it isn't inconceivable that visiting Luke at the time, you might have encountered Robin on some sort of visit as well. You're fortunate to have met one of the great ones. I agree, Ed. And if you ever make BGen, I apologize in advance for recalling you as a Colonel. v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine. |
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