Subject: U$ Military Medals meaningless junk ...!
From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 9/1/03 3:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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I wonder what the rational was for 25 missions in B-52's? Buff driver can
you clarify?

Its not platform specific, but theater and MAJCOM specific. Ten sorties for
an
AM seems to be the norm in most conflicts, but CENTCOM used a "point system"
for Operation SOUTHERN WATCH where I believe you would have had to fly 15
sorties for an AM. My guess for Vietnam was that PACOM (or perhaps since
B-52s
were never "chopped" to PACOM, it was SAC's rule) decided that Rolling
Thunder,
Freedom Porch and other air operations south of 20 latitude needed 25 sorties
for an AM due to the relatively low risk. I don't know...Ed?


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it
harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"


I wonder how they arrived at those numbers. If we needed 5 for an AM and you
needed 25 does this mean you had 1/5 the losses per sortie relative to the ETO?
Interesting to know how they would have figured it out.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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