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George Bush was trained to bring down Soviet TU-95
www.izvestia.ru ^ | 10/19/2007

Posted on 10/21/2007 12:51:12 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

The present US president George Bush was trained to intercept Soviet bomber carrier TU-95 Bear aircraft while he was in the Texas Air National Guard.

The US archives and retired colonel William Kampenii, Mr. President’s fellow soldier since 1970 till 1971 have proved this fact.

‘Pilots from Air National Guard used to intercept TU-95 regularly. The Bears used to make patrol flights, the aircrafts were usually intercepted along the eastern US coast, sometimes just near Cuba,’ says colonel Kampenii.

George Bush J. reminisces in his autobiography A Charge To Keep how they were taught to direct to the target with the help of the radar, how to remain unnoticeable or simulate aerial combat maneuvers.

This year TU-95 were used by Russia Air Forces again since the end of the Cold War.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: bush; coldwar; f102; ltbush; navair; tang
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To: uscabjd

Gore left Vanderbilt law school. He has no law or divinity degree.\\

To be fair to AlGore it seems he left (no flunk out) to run for an open Congressional seat which he won


41 posted on 10/22/2007 7:02:10 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: PLMerite
Isn’t that why they developed the “over the shoulder” method

Yeah.....but ask an aviator, They'd know more about that than I would. (Air Crew on EC-121s, EP-3s and EA-3s)

The Genie was an unguided missile or rocket so once loosed the aviator was pretty much in as much trouble as his targets.

The lob delivery technique and Immelmann escape was developed for striking ground targets....the lob giving time for the aviator to get distance from the blast. An air intercept would be a straight shot. Don't know if the maneuver would buy the same time in a head to head strike.
42 posted on 10/22/2007 7:22:11 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: magslinger
My Dad retired from the Navy in '60. In October '62, we all sat around the kitchen table waiting for the phone to ring again recalling him to active service. His sea bag was packed.

I was in a hot war, a proxy war....but everywhere else the SOS was going on in the Cold War.
43 posted on 10/22/2007 7:44:04 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: DMZFrank

Skinny in country was Westmorland got rid of the Senator’s son after a few months......seems algore needed baby sitters which MACV couldn’t afford.


44 posted on 10/22/2007 7:51:26 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: BIGLOOK

Highly believable.

45 posted on 10/23/2007 5:15:44 AM PDT by magslinger (I will not submit.)
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To: BIGLOOK

Important work, especially in ‘62. Like I said, if we weren’t prepared to go to war, we would have. The enemy never asks your permission to attack.


46 posted on 10/23/2007 5:24:17 AM PDT by magslinger (I will not submit.)
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To: flaglady47
photographer, while being followed around by someone to protect him and keep him out of harm’s way. Plus he did this for about 2 seconds (slight exaggeration).

I believe Gore eventually got a BA in . . . Journalism (duh!). That's how as a draft volunteer with 2 years on active duty he got to be an Army journalist without having to go to the highly competitive Defense information school in Indianapolis.

As a former OJT Army combat journalist/photographer in Vietnam (1968-69, 5th SFG(A)), I wouldn't knock his Army service. He volunteered for Vietnam, but the brass were terrified of having a serving Senator's son get hurt, so Al wasn't assigned to Vietnam until his father left office. By then he had only 5 mos. left on active duty. It's funny--when I got back after 20 mos. in Vietnam, I had less than 5 mos. left on my 3-year enlistment, so per policy, I got an early out.

True, he went in the Army because he saw that he needed to get his ticket punched for his political future, but unlike Kerry he was pretty much a conventional pro-American conservative Democrat then. When the New Left took over the party, he adopted all the Leftist shibboleths--anti-war, pro-abortion, anti-American, anti-human, etc. He's not stupid. He's just leftist.

47 posted on 12/31/2007 8:39:28 AM PST by logomachon (The ends had better justify the means.)
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