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"Bill Shatzer" wrote in message ... Assumed but not proven. In any case irrelevant if the folks -thought- they were in a battle. Kerry's crew said there was no enemy fire, so the folks didn't think they were in a battle. You think those folks in the Bradley who got zapped by a blue on blue Maverick didn't get PHs? There was no -real- battle, they were just motoring along when the A-10 mistook them for a T-72 or whatever. The A-10 driver -thought- it was a battle. Irrelevant. "Purported" experience. The things have to cover a minimum distance before they arm themselves and that distance is sufficient to place the shooter outside of the blast/shrapnel radius. I recall one story from the vietnam conflict where an army surgeon got written up for removing an unexploded M-79 round from an ARVN trooper. -He- got shot by friendly fire but the round hadn't traveled far enough to arm itself. Based on the best information, Kerry was not entitled to that award. |
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"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
: [snip] But those are combatants with - literally - a lot more room for manoeuvre. Flying formation bombing raids was rather more like Napoleonic infantry forming square under artillery fi each roundshot fired at the formation could kill or maim four or five men, and individual skill made no difference at all to the enemy gunners' point of aim and the flight of the shot. Interesting analogy. In the age of linear tactics, infantry in line were less vulnerable to artillery than in the square but cavalry could make hash of them. And vice versa. Had, for instance, the French cavalry at Waterloo had horse artillery with them they might have been able to make an impression on the British Squares. Cambronne and the Old(?) Guard weren't so lucky. Had the clash of the Guards proceeded with the French column coming in behind cavalry they might have been able to overrun a British Guards square instead of being shot to pieces. IBM __________________________________________________ _____________________________ Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Accounts Starting At $6.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com The Worlds Uncensored News Source |
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Kerry was and is a true decorated war hero. And it is driving the neocons nut
especially when we look at the war records of president Cheney and vice president Bush.. Arthur Kramer So was Dole and Bush 41. Did you vote for them? Ron PA-31T Cheyenne II Maharashtra Weather Modification Program Pune, India |
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In article ,
Guy Alcala writes: Ed Rasimus wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:24:59 GMT, Guy Alcala wrote: Jack wrote: Harry Andreas wrote: Yah, but was it a V-tail Bonanza? Of course, though he was a reasonably debonair sort, for a guy from Toledo. I suspect that one will go over (or under as the case may be) the heads of most here, this being a military aviation newsgroup. You don't give us enough credit. I chuckled at the pun. I did qualify it with most ;-) I knew a few would get it, but the percentage will be a lot lower than if it were posted to a general aviation group, where they'd presumably be rolling in the aisles en masse. Oh, I dunno. If a Debonair exercized a bit & slimmed down a bit, it would probably serve as a Mentor. -- Pete Stickney A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster |
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"Dude" wrote in message ... If he gets fooled by the Bush administration, should we let him represent us in dealings with truly professional diplomats and world leaders? Exactly the point. That is why you won't see Kerry going around saying that Bush is stupid and why he probably wishes his 'supporters' would stop saying it, too. |
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Peter Stickney wrote:
In article , Guy Alcala writes: Ed Rasimus wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:24:59 GMT, Guy Alcala wrote: Jack wrote: Harry Andreas wrote: Yah, but was it a V-tail Bonanza? Of course, though he was a reasonably debonair sort, for a guy from Toledo. I suspect that one will go over (or under as the case may be) the heads of most here, this being a military aviation newsgroup. You don't give us enough credit. I chuckled at the pun. I did qualify it with most ;-) I knew a few would get it, but the percentage will be a lot lower than if it were posted to a general aviation group, where they'd presumably be rolling in the aisles en masse. Oh, I dunno. If a Debonair exercized a bit & slimmed down a bit, it would probably serve as a Mentor. Before we end up (s)punning in, I hereby declare a moratorium on all puns based on the names of Beech (or any other company's: I can feel someone loading up with the Tutor even as I write) a/c names. Sure, I know it's probably futile, but the effort has to be made. This is _not_ s.m.n. ;-) Guy |
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And
tell me someone in his position with his quals would have got the deal he got if his father hadn't been a war hero congressman. Apparently his UPT performance should have put him in multi or helos: and normally someone without specifically in demand attributes should have had to go active duty to get UPT at that time anyway. Yes, that's as I understand it and no, I wasn't there. Have any sources for that? Apparently he was quite good at UPT, from what IPs said. Ron PA-31T Cheyenne II Maharashtra Weather Modification Program Pune, India |
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Yah, but was it a V-tail Bonanza? That has the rep as the unforgiving GA ship, probably due to lack of training. Nothing wrong with a V-tail bonanza really, except that it is a pretty clean airframe, and will build up speed quickly. Same with the Malibus that had some mid air breakups in the early 80s. Momentary inattention can cause airspeed to build quickly, and then if someone just yanks back on the stick hard...well, the results are predictable. Doctors are just famous for buying more plane than their abilties warrant. Plus some who used them for work, had rather long days and were flying when they were very fatigued. The joke about the Bonanza being the "Forked tail doctor killer", in reality was more about the pilots than the plane. Ron PA-31T Cheyenne II Maharashtra Weather Modification Program Pune, India |
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Sam Byrams wrote:
[Mason's book claims] the T-38 Talon was a big challenge for people whose total experience consisted of under 200 hours in the T-37. In the mid and late 60's it would have been less than 100 hrs in the Tweet for studs transitioning to the Talon, and nobody didn't like the T-38. Jack |
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