Good story. I hope all of yours got through it.
--Bob Whitmire
Registered Neanderthal
On Jun 22, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> That's presumably one of the paradoxes of war.
>
> It reminds me of a story from Gulf War 1. A colleague of mine from a
> previous squadron was flying a night mission in the early part of the
> conflict; he was now the squadron commander. During the early part of their
> trip he saw the sky light up some distance away as the Iraqis got going with
> their AAA (mostly ZU 23-2, I think). The Boss exclaims with surprise and
> asks his navigator, " ***, what the *** is that?"
>
> "That's our *** target, Boss!"
>
> That story was told many times over the following years.
>
> Chris
>
> On 22 Jun 2013, at 14:45, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Never could I have imagined feeling such sympathy for people who were doing
>> their dead level best to kill me.
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