Posted on 03/03/2020 6:05:04 AM PST by C19fan
The crew of a U.S. gunship have been awarded bravery medals at a ceremony in Florida after they rained fire down on Islamic State militants for hours, as allied soldiers on the ground were whisked to safety.
Forces on the ground came under heavy fire from ISIS militants in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on April 3, 2019, in a ferocious fight which one Major on the ground likened to infamous WW2 battle Iwo Jima.
They called for backup from 'Spooky 41' - a AC-13OU gunship, and the Hercules-variant plane arrived within minutes to provide covering fire and ensure medical helicopters could safely evacuate the injured.
The crew were up in the air for nine hours and managed to suppress enemy fire during the evacuation of 15 wounded soldiers.
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The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is one of my all-time favorite aircraft. Loud as sin inside, though.
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
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.
efficient/smart generally were shown the door by the efficient/stupid.
= = =
Maybe do you mean lazy/smart were shown the door?
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.”
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.
So what? It’s not a freakin’ contest.
I was thinking "Operation Oh Yes I Guess I Really am a Christian After All!!"
Glad to hear not all AC-130s are gathering dust..
Too bad Jack Welch didn’t read his book...
Why is it necessary for headlines to exaggerate x50. Not necessary.
2 full size gun safes? Impressive.
Simply put: You never ever want to mess with the United States Military.
(CTT3/USN/1988-1992)
Puff was DC3 or C47 in military parlance
Still devastating
I remember in Vietnam Nam we were told they could put a round in every square foot of a football field in 3 seconds!
I’m familiar with Dakotas as you can imagine
Ours weren’t armed though lol
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.
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