Posted on 03/19/2005 10:55:19 AM PST by kevin fortuna
he Kabul-ki Dance
Inside the cockpit with the pilots and wizzos of the 391st Fighter Squadron, the top guns of America's air war in Afghanistan by Mark Bowden
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ne of the unadvertised downsides of being a god of the night sky, of delivering America's smartest bombs, of owning the twenty-first-century battlefield and then getting home in time to dine on surf 'n' turf and Häagen-Dazs and catch the latest episode of Friends, is the capability of the U.S. Air Force to record every word and image from the cockpit of your F-15 for digital playback. It's fine for showing off marksmanship and relishing derring-do; but some moments are not meant to be relived every time some wise-ass desk jock in the Mission Planning Cell, the MPC, cues up a certain audio file and punches a button on his keyboard.
"Holy shit! Missile launch!"
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
must subscribe - too bad
post rest of article, please.
What cave does this guy live in? Maybe he can see the latest episode of Taxi too.
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