Posted on 10/05/2002 12:12:38 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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Tribute To HEROES
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 While the dogtag is used to provide information on an individual serviceman,
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The Minuteman in 1776 has a connection to the soldier fighting in Afghanistan today. Each of us represents a link in the chain that connects that Minuteman of SAMWolf
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Tribute to Vietnam Veterans
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The great intangible of America's wars beyond logistics,
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The Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing is comprised of two flying units and support staff - the 104th Fighter Squadron and the 135th Airlift Group. Nearly 2,000 full-time and traditional members are employed by the Maryland Air National Guard, contributing $76 million dollars annually to Maryland’s economy.
The 175th Wing has state and federal missions to augment active forces and provide assistance to state authorities during natural disasters, civil disturbances and other emergencies. In peacetime, the 175th Wing prepares for wartime taskings, natural catastrophes, and major civilian accidents by participating in various deployments and exercises. The unit must maintain the capability to meet mobility standards and worldwide deployment when directed by competent authority.
The 175th Wing consists of two distinct flying units with different missions—the 104th Fighter Squadron, flying the A-10 “Thunderbolt II” single-seat jet and the 135th Airlift squadron, operating the C-130E “Hercules” transport aircraft.
104th Fighter Squadron [104th FS]
The 175th Wing consists of two distinct flying units with different missions—the 104th Fighter Squadron, flying the A-10 “Thunderbolt II” single-seat jet and the 135th Airlift squadron, operating the C-130E “Hercules” transport aircraft. The 104th Fighter Squadron’s mission is to conduct tactical air, forward air control, and night flying operations through the utilization of assigned tactical forces in either an offensive or defensive capacity.
135th Airlift Squadron [135th AS]
The 175th Wing consists of two distinct flying units with different missions—the 104th Fighter Squadron, flying the A-10 “Thunderbolt II” single-seat jet and the 135th Airlift squadron, operating the C-130E “Hercules” transport aircraft. The 135th Airlift Squadron’s mission is to support tactical forces for worldwide resupply missions and airlift employment operations by airland and airdrop. The mission of the 135th Airlift Squadron is to provide the best trained, highly motivated and committed combat ready aircrews, empowered to respond to any and all taskings in support of humanitarian, contingency and combat operations worldwide.
The 135th AS was the first Air National Guard unit to take delivery of the the C-130J to replace the C-130B which it received in 1980.
The 135th Airlift Squadron supports a number of worldwide missions including troop and armament delivery on rugged landing strips to emergency evacuation and humanitarian relief services.
The 135th Airlift Squadron has provided support for numerous high-profile worldwide missions including Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia as well as humanitarian operations in Haiti and Somalia. In 1998, Maryland Air National Guardsmen and their C-130s responded to the devastation in Honduras and other Central American countries as a result of Hurricane Mitch, as well as Bangladesh to assist with flood-relief activities. Additionally, the 135th has supported other total force missions including counter-drug operations throughout Central America since 1981, and has been directly involved in Operations Southern Watch (Lybia and Oman), Provide Comfort II (Turkey) and Baltic Challenge (Estonia and Lithuania).
The squadron transitioned from eight C-130E to eight C-130J aircraft beginning in FY 1999.
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Sorry for not being around much the past several days. I've been out playing with my "new" toy!
Well, new for me anyway!
What’s the point? October 02, 2002
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The moron, Margaret Warner of PBS’ News Hour is a good
example. During her early October segment about the Torricelli campaign dropout disaster, talking to a fellow named Batz from the Washington Post, and a narrow-faced liberal from some other location, something important didn’t come up. Jim Jeffords.
The topic was the possible loss of the senate by the Democrats in the coming election. You should get a copy of the text from that session. If you didn't know how it actually happened, and just went by what these clowns had to say, the Democrats won back the senate in a voting booth!
What actually happened was that Jeffords disenfranchised the voters of Vermont. After marking a ballot for a Republican they discovered that they hadn't. Every voter who selected his name, believing that doing so would help the Republicans keep control of the senate, was cheated. After Jeffords had the win, he changed his party to Independent and gave the Senate to the Democrats. The similarity between that, and what's going on in New Jersey is comparable to genetic cloning.
The ability of liberal “journalists” to leave out the central question is titanic.
Jean Carnahan (D. Missouri) won her senate seat by defeating the evil John Ashcroft. That's what you're left with after Warner gets through ignoring the facts. The truth is that Ashcroft refused to be so rude as to say anything critical of a recently-widowed woman who had stepped into her dead husband’s campaign for the senate. And, after Ashcroft handed her the seat, the first thing the ungrateful bitch did was to vote against his appointment as Attorney General! He gave her the senate, and in return she stabbed him in the back.
When discussing that one, Warner forgot to mention the last part.
Not that liberals can't turn on their own kind. Torricelli (D., New Jersey) didn't quit out of a noble sense of love for his country or his party. Somebody told him to get out or get hammered. Aware from the polls that his campaign was going down the tubes, and their grasp of the senate with it, somebody way up in the party told him to take a walk or face a Democrat committee in the senate, and be ground into hamburger on charges of corruption. Quit or find his pension rejected and any hope of future appointment to office gone, gone, gone.
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