Hmmmmm...what would Kim Campbell and Martha McSally say? heheh...
Presently I'm living in Tucson and totally enjoy seeing many A10 flybys almost every day. Sometimes I'm up on the hill and I can spot a half dozen or more in the air at once...
So many fantastic aircraft flying around here.
Hah. . .I do miss Tucson. Great place to fly the jet, great ranges and great targets on the range.
Politically Incorrect Rant Follows:
McSally was in Kuwait and we had no status of forces agreement and that meant we all had to conform to local laws when off base. She refused and instead of taking it up the chain, she jumped outside the military and went congressional straight-away (and media picked it up). That is disgraceful behavior. . .all about her.
Instead of taking it up the chain and if necessary the IG route, she by-passed military channels and jumped to congress to push her agenda. It is one thing to go congressional after exhausting military channels, it is awful behavior to ignore military channels and jumping to congress.
Campbell is nothing more than any other average pilot. Seriously. She only got coverage because she was a female that flew a fighter (not a fighter pilot).
Can you name the male Lt that experienced the same battle damage (actually a little more), but died when attempting to land the jet? How about the colonel that survived and brought his jet back and landed successfully (with more damage than campbell), and any number of other male fighter pilots that brought back damaged jets. But yet, cambell’sname comes to mind. . .why is that?
Fighter pilots are warriors where aggression is natural and is a manly trait, and the reason is simple: Testosterone.
Testosterone is mocked and laughed at all the time in media and other venues, but that is what drives natural manly aggression.
And it is always the female telling aggressive males to tone down their natural aggression. Heck, even Hollywood recognizes how Testosterone drives aggressive behavior.
Men have natural aggression, testosterone-driven, whereas females can be mean but they do not possess natural warrior aggression.
Up here in Buckeye by Luke AFB, I get a steady stream of F-22s and F-16s, plus V-22s shuttling from Pendelton. The Raptors are super quiet by fighter standards, and the Ospreys are louder than a Ted Nugent concert in the front row.