And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That was my bird in '72-'74. It had to be the most inefficient pig in the sky but it could haul ass if you needed it to and could carry more ordnance load than a WW ll B 17. Unfortunately the AIM 7 and AIM 9 missiles were absolute junk and almost never found their targets. I was a Weapon Control Systems tech.
From February 1985 to July 1987 I was on shore duty with VT-86 at NAS Pensacola. Our CO when I left was a Marine LtCol. He had a wire-frame mockup about 2 feet long of an F-4 on his desk, and a plaque that read, "Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for a clean F-4 is a fast son of a bitch."
Pretty sure my cousin doesn't regard his time on the Kitty Hawk during Nam the "good old days".
ReplyDeleteDon't be so sure.
DeleteThe good ol' Phantom, which proved you can make a brick fly if you attach enough power to it.
ReplyDeleteJust follow the smoky trail....
ReplyDeleteJ79 freedom vapor.
DeleteFighter Squadron 102 - the "Diamondbacks"!
ReplyDeleteThat was my bird in '72-'74. It had to be the most inefficient pig in the sky but it could haul ass if you needed it to and could carry more ordnance load than a WW ll B 17. Unfortunately the AIM 7 and AIM 9 missiles were absolute junk and almost never found their targets. I was a Weapon Control Systems tech.
ReplyDeleteBut, bet the smoke going by got some MIG jockies nervous!
DeleteWere you an AQ or were you Air Force?
DeleteFrom February 1985 to July 1987 I was on shore duty with VT-86 at NAS Pensacola. Our CO when I left was a Marine LtCol. He had a wire-frame mockup about 2 feet long of an F-4 on his desk, and a plaque that read, "Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil, for a clean F-4 is a fast son of a bitch."
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