Air Force
Thursday updates- Fortson, Biden, Lee, and 6/6
You should recall Roger Fortson, the young airman killed by a deputy sheriff in Florida after answering his door with a gun in his hand. For a good start – the deputy has been fired. Deputy Eddie Duran, an Army veteran who had been with the department since 2019, was fired from the Okaloosa County […]
F-35 crash in NM
A brand-new F-35B crashed on takeoff from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque on Wednesday. A pilot from the Defense Contract Management Agency was at the F-35B’s controls at the time of the incident. The plane had refueled at Kirtland Air Force Base, just adjacent to the airport, before the crash. The pilot ejected from […]
Air Force promotions influenced by completion of DEI related training
James O’Keefe, of O’Keefe Media Group, released another undercover video. In this video, a man working for the Air Force discloses what DEI people are actually doing in the military. The man, Jake Reyna, has a low opinion of “old white men” mainly due to their conservative leanings. He admitted that the completion or none-completion […]
Valor Friday
We discussed yesterday the recent passing of Brigadier General Clarence “Bud” Anderson. He was the last American triple ace still living. He shot down 16 German Luftwaffe planes in the skies over Europe between 8 March and 5 December 1944. He earned five Distinguished Flying Crosses for his successes. Read them here. Post-war, Anderson remained […]
Beards for Airmen and Guardians
The Navy did a study to investigate the effects that facial hair has on gas mask use. The Navy hasn’t released the study’s details yet. An amendment has been added to the annual defense authorization bill that would call for a pilot program for some Air Force and Space Force personnel to grow beards. The […]
Last Triple Ace dies, age 102
Let that sink in. Triple Ace. At least fifteen kills – in his case, 16 in air-to-air combat. One Israeli in the Six Day War has 17, and Ukraine claimed one of theirs (since disputed) with 40, but since WWII these have been few and far between.* Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson arrived in the European […]
US Air Force Instructor Dies After Ejection Seat Activates
A USAF flight instructor has died after his ejection seat was activated. The officer was in a T-6A Texan II (type pictured above), which is fitted with a “Zero-Zero” ejection seat. Seats of those type are designed to deploy at zero airspeed and zero altitude. Earlier models had minimum altitude and/or speed requirements. Simple Flying […]
Hard Call
You may have read last week that a young Air Force man, Roger Fortson, assigned to the 4th Special Operatons Squadron at Florida’s Hulrburt Field was shot by police after a domestic disturbance call was placed. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was responding to a disturbance between a man and woman in the apartment building, […]
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