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To: ceo-vrwc

I believe she was supposed to be brought forward at this time as part of a schedule for Operation fortunate son.

She was supposed to either say she was the one who typed the memos OR worse the DNC had planed on the memos being discredited and then using her to be the new"memo" by testifying as to the military base gossip.

She is a fraud.

I don't care how rich ANYONE is, the military does not just give F102 for joy rides.

BTW any fighter pilots out there? Is flying the F102 fun? I have heard the current pilots say they enjoy fighter jet flying.


12 posted on 09/15/2004 10:09:42 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! NOV 2, 2004 is VETERANS DAY! VOTE!)
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To: longtermmemmory

F-102 was basically a rocket with stubby wings. Not a joy-riding plane. But then again, to hear the armchair LIBBIES, who've been as close to the military as I have to the moon, the F-102 was akin to a Piper Cub.


19 posted on 09/15/2004 10:13:09 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. (I operate the minigun, more fun):.)
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To: longtermmemmory

Having pulled guard duty on F-102 alert aircraft for close to a year in Korea (1969) these planes were strictly interceptors relying on rail mouted air to air missles as well as larger long range air to air in the side bays. They were big, slow accelerating single engine, delta winged aircraft without any machine guns or cannons making them great for long range interception of Soviet Bear bombers but terrible against NV fighters which is why they were relegated to ANG duty after that lesson was painfully learned with the loss of 20 or so of them. And this is why GWB was not called up, he would have to have been retrained in a new aircraft (F-4 Phantom) at a time when the war was winding down and there was an abundance of properly trained regualar AF pilots available.


61 posted on 09/15/2004 11:03:48 AM PDT by vigilence
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