Maybe We should drop some of these on ISIS strongholds? Hit them with a literal sh!tstorm. The sh!t gets real, FOR REAL!
Posted on 11/03/2015 11:03:14 PM PST by Impala64ssa
As American involvement in the Vietnam War began, the A-1 Skyraider was still the medium attack aircraft in many carrier air wings, although it was planned to be replaced by the A-6A Intruder as part of the general switch to jet aircraft. Skyraiders from Constellation andTiconderoga participated in the first U.S.
Navy strikes against North Vietnam on 5 August 1964 as part of Operation Pierce Arrow in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, striking against fuel depots at Vinh, with one Skyraider from Ticonderoga damaged by anti-aircraft fire, and a second from Constellation shot down, killing its pilot.
In contrast to the Korean War, fought a decade earlier, the U.S. Air Force used the naval A-1 Skyraider for the first time in Vietnam. As the Vietnam War progressed, USAF A-1s were painted in camouflage, while USN A-1 Skyraiders were gray/white in color; again, in contrast to the Korean War, when A-1s were painted dark blue.
In October 1965, to highlight the dropping of the six millionth pound of ordnance, Commander Clarence J. Stoddard of Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25), flying an A-1H, dropped a special, one-time-only object in addition to his other munitions – a toilet.
Once again history is stranger then fiction, and a lot funnier: USS Midway VA-25’s Toilet Bomb.
In October 1965, CDR Clarence J. Stoddard, Executive Officer of VA-25 “Fist of the Fleetâ€, flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 “Paper Tiger II†from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped.
The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.
The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965
“I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise. 572 was flown by CDR C. W. “Bill†Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII).
The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC, he ended with “and one code name Sani-flushâ€. The FAC couldn’t believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop.
When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down. The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward.
Just as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, “What the hell was on 572’s right wing?†There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film.
Maybe We should drop some of these on ISIS strongholds? Hit them with a literal sh!tstorm. The sh!t gets real, FOR REAL!
That’ll flush em out real good.
I had suggested dropping tampons (new and...otherwise) on ISIS as an area denial weapon. They would probably just kill themselves or starve to death, being unable to move. Not sure how that would fit in the Geneva Convention rules, though.
Before or after flushing the toilet?
These days they use GPS guided smart toilets.
OMG! Why hasn’t the UN banned such weapons??? I’m sure ISIS would complain that it’s not Halal...and Obama would trip over himself to comply.
I say wire up some hogs to drop on ISIS. Fill them with munitions to make an extra big mess when they hit their targets.
That would work on any man, not just ISIS.
A great airplane the Navy Skyraider, worse than toilets it put a great amount of ordinance on the heads of the enemy in two wars, Korea and Vietnam.
“...the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it.”
The technical details would make fascinating reading.
When you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go...
Being this was a piston aircraft, was the toilet low-flow ?
Wicked shrapnel, I imagine
They really should drop wild boars on the muzzies. They got some big ones down south.
I recall watching those things fly over, they reminded me of bumble bees, making lots of noise, and just slowly going about their business.
NAH
WE SHOULD BE DROPPING PIGS
ping
Better to pork bomb isis.
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