So they went to the WEG to train for the ASA mission in case NORAD tasks them under ONE. Sounds pretty much SOP.
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Shooting down enemy aircraft over American soil is an event U.S.-based
alert pilots train for.
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As a never-served civilian, I think the real training exercise is
to plan to shot down a hijacked civilian/domestic airliner before it is
rammed into a high-rise in NYC, Chicago, or a strategic building
like the Pentagon or CIA headquarters.
That would be the bitter pill to swallow.
Well, welcome to all crewmembers! I hope they gave you the key to our city!
I hope the “live ordnance drops” are just part of a routine Eglin/WSEP deployment, or part of normal qualification training for F-16 drivers. I understand the air defense stuff in support of homeland security. But if the Air Guard is doing practice bombing for domestic defense, we are in serious trouble.