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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
From: "Jack G" Date: 9/7/2004 10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: 4vw%c.6338$BQ4.5420@trnddc06 Art, You were 10,000 feet above the tip of the spear - and then for only 30 seconds. The rest of the time you were a passenger on a bus being taken care of by the rest of the crew. I know because you explained it to me in your response to my early post... Jack G. There is the tip of the spear. Then there is everything else. The very best are at the tip of the spear. Where were you? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer Didn't notice you around anywhere. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
From: (B2431) Date: 9/7/2004 11:01 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: There is the tip of the spear. Then there is everything else. The very best are at the tip of the spear. Where were you? Arthur Kramer If you were incapacitated somone else on your plane would have gone forward and done your job. Wrong. No one else on the crew was trained to operate a Norden. Guess you don't know much huh? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
From: Ian MacLure Date: 9/7/2004 9:58 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in hlink.net: "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... A C-54 is not a combat aircraft. Seeing "action" implies that you have done harm to the enemy. You can't do harm to the enemy in an unarmed airliner. Flying combat airccraft is one thing, Flying airliners is something else. When it comes to doing harm to the enemy, "unarmed airliners" delivering paratroops isn't so different from bombers delivering bombs. As it happens, paratrooping is one thing my cousin did not do. They did trust him with high value stuff including 3 and 4 star officers and the CinC Pacific from time to time though. IBM Tough service, War is hell. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
From: "Steven P. McNicoll" Date: 9/8/2004 4:59 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: .net "ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Do you know why they have pilots on bombers? Just for one reason which was to put a bombardier over a target for 30 seconds. Every bomber required at least one pilot, but not every bomber required a bombardier. The pilot is only a bus driver to deliver him where he can hurt the enemy. So don't make too big a deal of pilots . Some are good and some are not..If you get one who can fly a good bomb run, not dump your gyro and keep the wings level so you don't dump bombs all over the landscape, you are lucky.But good bomb run pilots are not all that easy to find. And as far as judging pilots performance on a bomb run, no one is more qualified to make that judgement than a bombardier. But this is a subject you would know nothing about. Sounds like you're bitter over washing out of pilot training and being made a bombardier. Never was in pilot traning.Sounds like you are bitter for not fighting for your country. But you cant blame me for that. You have only yourself to blame. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message ... Get rid of all the useless people and how does the bombardier get to the target?? That's been done. Today we deliver more bombs than the Marauder could carry from single-seat aircraft. The sole remaining crew member is called "pilot". |
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard? From: (BUFDRVR) Date: 9/7/2004 8:18 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: ArtKramr wrote: A C-54 is not a combat aircraft. Seeing "action" implies that you have done harm to the enemy. You can't do harm to the enemy in an unarmed airliner. Flying combat airccraft is one thing, Flying airliners is something else. Ahh, now we have a new Kramer version of combat. Now, to qualify, you must have delivered explosive ordnance. C-47s flying over "the Hump" and intercepted by Japanese Zeros...not "real combat". C-130s landing in Khe Sahn during artilliary and mortor fire...not combat. UH-60s inserting SF forces behind Iraqi lines before the beginning of Iraqi Freedom...not combat. Hell, Ed Rasimus in an F-4E on MiGCAP over Hanoi...not combat. The list gets shorter and shorter.... BUFDRVR Don't try to mix Ed with the wannabbes on this NG. Ed fought the good fight. But why are you still on that eternal bomb run that never ends? You have been on that bomb run for years and never reached the target. No, Bufdrvr has hit a few targets, and no doubt he demonstrated better accuracy than you could ever have acheived (despite your whining protestations that you *never* missed a target...yeah, right...). And you curiously missed responding to his other examples of what you have termed "non-combat" flying...I guess my brother was not in combat when he got shot down during a Dustoff mission in Vietnam? So you are again lying...which seems to be about all you are capable of doing anymore. Sad. Brooks Arthur Kramer |
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard? From: Ian MacLure Date: 9/7/2004 9:36 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: (ArtKramr) wrote in : Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard? From: (B2431) Date: 9/7/2004 1:52 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: I'll bet he saw more combat than you did and he flew C-54s. A C-54 is not a combat aircraft. Seeing "action" implies that you have done harm to the enemy. You can't do harm to the enemy in an unarmed So being fired on multiple times doesn't count. Taxiing in wearing substantial portions of your deceased copilot and good friend doesn't count. Having a second copilot killed during landing doesn't count. Flying onto disputed airfields doesn't count? Losing 20 ft of fuselage to an artillery round and flying whats left of the airplane to Guam doesn't count? So I guess whatever it was he was delivering under fire could not have been that important. Well, I'm glad you cleared that up. I have a friend who was a C-47 driver on D-Day, dropped paras. I guess what he did doesn't count. A gentleman I sat next to in our town band went ashore with the first wave on D-Day but he was only a doctor so I guess he doesn't count. airliner. Flying combat airccraft is one thing, Flying airliners is something else. Does the word tactical transport mean anything to you? Do you know what day it is even? IBM There is the tip of the spear. Then there is everything else. The very best are at the tip of the spear. Where were you? Then you must not have been at the "tip of the spear", being as you have repeatedly proven to be anything but "the very best" (how can a pilot washout call himself the "very best"?). Brooks Arthur Kramer |
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message ... Never was in pilot traning. I didn't say you were. I said it sounds like you're bitter over washing out of pilot training and being made a bombardier. Not everyone was qualified to be a pilot. |
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"Mark and Kim Smith" wrote in message ... Wow! Tell that to Paul Shorts face! Get rid of all the useless people and how does the bombardier get to the target?? He skis in on his tongue?? (^-^))) George Z. |
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