[Gunrunner2]

>>3) In the Air Force, if you are not a fighter pilot you are a lesser creature. So air to ground missions and helos would be totally neglected.<<

Spoken by someone that knows nothing of the fighter world in the Air Force.

Look, A-10's are fighters and I am a Fighter Pilot.

F-16's do the CAS mission (air to ground) and they are fighters and flown by fighter pilots.

F-15E's drop bombs and are fighter pilots.

Fighter vs attack is a Navy argument, not an Air Force argument.

[SampleMan]

"Look, A-10's are fighters and I am a Fighter Pilot.
F-16's do the CAS mission (air to ground) and they are fighters and flown by fighter pilots.
F-15E's drop bombs and are fighter pilots.
Fighter vs attack is a Navy argument, not an Air Force argument."

A-10s are fighters? What's the "A" stand for? How's your vertical vector? Air to air radar? Medium range air to air?

I'll accept the F-16 is both. But what of the F-15E. The last time I checked they weren't allowed to compete at the USAF fighter competitions (probably because someone was afraid they would win). Not that I'm an expert on the aircraft, but I also understand that it is subject to the laws of physics with those saddle tanks, with non fighter type G limit.

Now this might just be how you define the word, but the MSM calls everything that doesn't say "United" on the side a fighter, and that really chaps my hide.

Finally, would someone pleeaaseee explain to this idiot (that's me) how to get someone else's post or part of it in italics? I just can't figure it out and I'm throwing in the towel.

[SampleMan]

And by the way, you fly Warthogs? Coooool.

Does that gun really shoot through schools?

May the mighty TF-34 push you onward to glory.