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Attack pilots are a different breed. Unlike fighter jocks who see attack as just one of a bunch of things to do, they really care for the guy on the ground. I love me some A-10 and AV-8B.
@Crazy Carl , pilots flipping the bird is actually a sign of affection, and can mean many things, and none of them derogatory.
They're very slow aircraft, but amazing to watch in flight.
A million years ago, as a newly minted 11C Indirect Fire Weapons Infantryman, aka. mortar maggot, I got sent to Ft Irwin/NTC as OPFOR. Well, lasers don't curve, so no MILES system for mortars (observer/controllers handled those details), so my mortar platoon got stuck with the ADA role & I spent way too much time on desert mountain tops waiting to whack a Blackhawk or Kiowa with a MILES Stinger, or to engage 'fast movers', typically F-4s & A-10s, with the occasional A-7 for variety with star cluster flares (NO MILES/laser engagement vs. the fixed wing birds, dunno why), then call it in to the O/Cs.
The Warthog pilots would fly over our positions at ridiculously close altitudes, inverted, 'n flip us the bird as they went over, while we'd try to bounce green phosphorous 'stars' off their canopy.
Watching them fly NOE through the mountains was mesmerizing. The way they could juke/flutter/twist throigh the air reminded me of watching barn swallows feeding at sunset.
Every time I flew in a Blackhawk, I always pictured myself on the ground shooting me down. I could’ve done it guaranteed all but a couple times. I hated riding in helos
Call me a control freak but there are very few people I trust my life with and these weren’t SOAR pilots we are talking about
Every time I flew in a Blackhawk, I always pictured myself on the ground shooting me down. I could’ve done it guaranteed all but a couple times. I hated riding in helos
Call me a control freak but there are very few people I trust my life with and these weren’t SOAR pilots we are talking about
Daughter of a friend of mine pilots an A-10.
Blonde and beautiful. Seriously.
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