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- From: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
- Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military
- Subject: RE: THE A-10
- Message-ID: <1338.417.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:49:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
- Reply-To: rocky.rawlins@the-matrix.com (Rocky Rawlins)
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- -> I think I'd take a Marine Corps Harrier, at least I am sure that
- -> somebody will have spent time teaching him to tell freind from foe on
- -> the ground. Sure his life expectancy might be less but then rather
- -> his ass than mine! (The British Army suffered more casualties at the
- -> hands of the USAF than the entire Iraqi armed forces during the Gulf
- -> war, the Marines also suffered from the attentions of USAF A-10's
- -> hence there long standing policy of Marines being supported by Marine
- -> Air first, second and Navy third.)
-
- I used to watch Air Force and Marines pilots practicing CAS on a bombing
- range years ago. I could always tell which was which. The AF jets went
- over fairly low and Fast and dropped their loads. The Marines pilots
- went down, down, down until they disappeared below the tops of the
- trees. Then there would be an explosion over there and a second later a
- jet would come zooming up from below those trees. The Air Force jocks
- always told me it was becase the Marines had to get low enough to read
- the name tags on the guys on the ground before dropping because they had
- trouble reading the maps. The Marine pilots said it was so they could
- open the cockpit and talk to the guys on the ground to ask them where
- they wanted the load placed.
- Rocky
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