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The Haditha Marines-The Squad Leader-A Final Chapter (SSgt Wuterich-Master Thread)

>> ... who testified today he was coerced by Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents who threatened the Venezuelan native with deportation if he refused...

Nat's beating the drum to deafening levels. I like it.

He needs to be exonerated....now.

Prayers ongoing.

I've been off the site for a bit. Been so busy trying to set up "chat servers" to allow communications through my head set (ear phones and mic) to communicate with a special Carrier Operation server where one can through Microsoft's FSX (Fight Simulator X) fly with other pilots and aviators....
Finally got everything working right and for most of this evening had spent on and off the "multi-User" service of FSX. In short gentlemen.
Ahem.....Through my head set communicated with the flight officer of the Nimitz stationed in this multiuser flight session of the coast of Brazil, Rio area.
Chatting with him, he is also the LSO (Landing Signal Officer) on that carrier..... set up the proper TACAN frequencies and LSI freqs then allowed him to talk me to the carrier from a land landing field I took off from.
Found the carrier in my TACAN.....I see the carrier coordinates, bearing, heading, etc....... fly to the carrier, then for the next hour and a half ....sweating my balls off....this is so close to being real.....have the LSO take me around about a dozen times of flying what we call the pattern. In a nut shell, speed, directions around a race horse around the carrier at given distances, blah blah..... and of course required within their NATOP standard Carrier Patterns for CVN carriers... keep proper altitude...
After a few go arounds at attempts to do a carrier trap (land the beast...in my base a rather sophisticated F18E SuperBug Hornet, I paid for this addon package....it is so real with all internal cockpit switches and control handles and the way the HUD and all the display panels look etc., I drop flaps to full, check my speed to keep it at 135mph, line up with the LSI cursors and lines in the HUD, so I am on the proper flight path to the carrier's fan tail, of course having to also keep the proper glide path, drop the hook, and landing gear ...blah blah....
BINGO!
I land on I think the third wire and come to a stop, while all the steam is coming out of the flight deck and deck personel are moving about as well as deck vehicles....
I love it! And at sixty five years old!
So much different then just doing carrier ops in a free flight session. Where one does not have other pilots or aviators flying about, instead of computer generated AI aircraft.
And one can talk with those in the air and on the ground.
So.
Logging into FR a short time ago....4:30 plus AM.... and seeing this great announcement about our Marine, is just supper great. It is like two really nice things happening for me today.
God is good. And I hope HE has heard all our prayers for Sgt Wuterich in full, and it will PLEASE HIM, to have this whole horror story work out in the end in the best interests of our Marine.
It sure looks like HE has heard and has perhaps for a long time decided to honor all the prayers lifted up for this Marine, and those in his squad and associations in the Haditha incident, as to our prayer requests.
Thanks for the ping Red. And you all have a safe, healthy, stress free upcoming day.
Don't try to land Super Hornets on CVN carriers in your spare time. It will lead you to drink......
Semper Fi.