Air Force
Saturday embarrassment
Luckily this is old enough that I am sure all the principal players have long since retired, if not died. Good thing, too. Back in the mid-’50s, the Navy was testing a new radar-guided air-to-air missile, the AIM-7 Sparrow. Targets were needed, so older prop planes were reconfigured as unmanned drones. We’re going to take […]
Valor Friday
I wrote about Philip Conran a while back. He’s a personal hero of mine, and the efforts to get his Air Force Cross upgraded to a Medal of Honor continues. News broke a month or so ago that legislation was (again) introduced in Congress to that effect. Closer to home, Conran’s home county of Santa […]
Valor Friday
I talked a while back about one of Norway’s greatest heroes, Captain Gunnar Sønsteby. During World War II, as a member of the Norwegian Resistance, he thrice earned that nation’s highest honor of the War Cross with Swords, among many other awards. The War Cross with Swords is analogous to an American Medal of Honor […]
$200 mill crash an Alaska explained
The Air Force lost an F-35 in Alaska in January at Eielson Air Base. An accident report is blaming ice in the landing gear for the crash. “After initial takeoff, the MA’s [mishap aircraft’s] nose landing gear (NLG) did not retract properly due to hydraulic fluid contaminated with water that froze, preventing full strut extension […]
M18 restored to service in Air Force
I’m sure y’all recall the M18 service pistol debacle – an airman in Global Strike Command was killed by a pistol which allegedly fired on its own. The Sig Sauer-made handgun had been suspended from service across the command on July 21 after Airman Brayden Lovan, 21, a security forces airman, died from an M18 […]
Fun in the Air
Jeff LPH dropped this on on me – being a sloppy sentimentalist I just had to go with it. Joe Peterburs was a P-51 pilot in WWII who had a unique 100th birthday celebration last weekend. Lt. Joseph Peterburs of the U.S. Army Air Corps was barely 20 when he flew “Josephine” — named […]
DC Sammich Attacker Air Force Vet
Jersey Mike Unavailable for Comment Air Force veteran hit with felony sandwich assault “I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Sean Dunn told an officer. Patty Nieberg The man at the center of a sandwich-turned-felony encounter in Washington D.C. is as Air Force veteran. Sean Charles Dunn, 37, gained Internet fame but a felony arrest […]
Saturday oopsie
Well, it had been had an interesting week – the President doesn’t know Alaska from Russia, a Reaper drone lost its propeller, a Stolen Valor pissing contest went to using real bullets, a screwing couple really screwed the pooch (at least we know they felt the earth move, right?) – sorta thought things would calm […]
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