Crew of gunship 'Spooky 41' are all awarded medals after raining fire on ISIS militants for NINE hours to allow rescue of 15 wounded soldiers in Afghanistan battle likened to Iwo Jima

UK Daily Mail ^ | March 3, 2020 | James Gordon

[RideForever]

https://weheartit.com/entry/533664

[ought-six]

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is one of my all-time favorite aircraft. Loud as sin inside, though.

[DariusBane]

So many things went right that day. Congratulations to everyone involved it could have been very bad. But these airmen and soldiers trained hard and fought hard.

Respect

[RinaseaofDs]

Rommel had officers classified efficiently: lazy/efficient - smart/stupid.

He said the most dangerous officer of them all was the efficient/stupid variant. Lazy/stupid were the 60 percent of the normal distribution. efficient/smart generally were shown the door by the efficient/stupid.

This explains the USAF trying to ditch the A-10 for so many years.

[Scrambler Bob]

efficient/smart generally were shown the door by the efficient/stupid.
= = =

Maybe do you mean lazy/smart were shown the door?

[blueunicorn6]

Unfortunately, he has it right.

It was competent/incompetent and industrious/lazy.

“Competent/industrious make good staff officers. Incompetent/lazy are the cannon fodder. Competent/lazy make good Commanders (they do things the easiest way). Industrious/incompetents? We shoot them. They are nothing but trouble.”

[Alas Babylon!]

Cutaway view of crew stations:

[freepersup]

On some bombing runs, 1,000 bombers would go out on mission and only 500 bombers would return to their home airfields. Aircrews were in the 10-12 man range so that’s 5000-6000 airman gone (wounded, captured or killed) per day or night. Returning aircrews were able to report on what happened to some of the aircrews as they had seen them bail out, get shot down or crash into the ground, but for many other aircrews that did not return, they simply vanished- never to be seen or heard from ever again.

[oh8eleven]

So what? It’s not a freakin’ contest.

[Fightin Whitey]

Operation Smouldering Turban !

I was thinking "Operation Oh Yes I Guess I Really am a Christian After All!!"

[NormsRevenge]

Glad to hear not all AC-130s are gathering dust..

[Kommodor]

Too bad Jack Welch didn’t read his book...

[Leep]

Why is it necessary for headlines to exaggerate x50. Not necessary.

[FLT-bird]

2 full size gun safes? Impressive.

[ro_dreaming]

Simply put: You never ever want to mess with the United States Military.

(CTT3/USN/1988-1992)

[wardaddy]

Puff was DC3 or C47 in military parlance

Still devastating

[Desparado]

I remember in Vietnam Nam we were told they could put a round in every square foot of a football field in 3 seconds!

[Pelham]

[wardaddy]

I’m familiar with Dakotas as you can imagine

Ours weren’t armed though lol

[Carriage Hill]

It’s a LARGE Cannon T-65 single safe w/ 2 doors, 7ft tall, 6ft wide and 3ft deep. They only made 50 of them. Weighs 3,800lbs, so it was a bear getting it from my sold nursery business office to my condo, w/ heavy equipment.