Consistent CAP over a fleet from a land base

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:08:52 GMT, Fred J. McCall
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:

:The USN has a tendency to be a bit parochial about who is defending
:them!

Primarily because we're afraid that the Air Farce might do the same
stellar job when they take over that job that they did for so many
years in providing close air support for the Army. :-)

Even with the smiley face at the end, that is patently absurd. I could
introduce you to a lot of AF airplane drivers both current and dating
back to SEA that spent a lot of time putting ordnance "in the wires"
and working both at night and under the weather in support of guys on
the ground. There is no more important mission.

I have a foil I want to use at a meeting, but I need to make sure no
USAF personnel are there before I do. It's a shot of a Hornet on
final to trap, with the caption:

"If it was easy, we'd let the Air Force do it."

You ought to put up a video clip of Baghdad in the middle of the night
with all of those missile trails and tracers then one of Sadaam's Hq
buildings being excised from amidst the neighborhoods without
collateral damage by an F-117, B-2 or F-15E. The caption can be:

"If the Navy could reach it, we wouldn't have to do it."

No one ever won a war by "out-landing" the enemy. Besides, why would
you want to fight a war from any place without a bar?



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
www.thunderchief.org
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