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Russian Fighter Jet Nearly Collides with U.S. Spy Jet Over Europe
Washington Free Beacon ^ | April 10, 2015

Posted on 04/11/2015 5:04:01 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll

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To: tcrlaf; Azeem
"Me and My RC" cold war Russian linguist bump.

I can still smell the insides of that bird when going through certain parts of an airport. The tech has changed dramatically, but the mission is probably the same. I miss that job.
21 posted on 04/11/2015 6:48:47 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: 1rudeboy

No, I suspect this person flew ON the RC135. There’s a few of us on the threads that did that. Those are memories we don’t soon forget.


23 posted on 04/11/2015 6:51:52 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: tenger

“”Me and My RC” cold war Russian linguist bump.”

Memories of Monterey...


24 posted on 04/11/2015 6:52:43 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

I guess that’s one way of putting it!!


25 posted on 04/11/2015 6:52:59 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: tcrlaf

Not Monterey for me. Lackland. All 47 weeks. Wish it had been CA but they wanted it back there for some reason.


26 posted on 04/11/2015 6:54:27 AM PDT by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: tenger

Was originally slotted for Russian, then got switched to Korean after a month.

Went back later for the Russian short course.


27 posted on 04/11/2015 7:00:29 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tenger; tcrlaf

I was an Arabic linguist. Most of the Russians were cross training to Serbo-Croatian during my time at Mildenhall. How times have changed.


28 posted on 04/11/2015 7:12:15 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: mj1234
we mooned a cruiser doing high speed passes

Times have sure changed in 40 years!

In today's world, there's no way I'd turn my back on someone, drop my pants and bend over.

It might have been an insult back in the day, but these days I think it would be understood as more like an offer and an invitation.

And that is NOT the message I'd want to send!

29 posted on 04/11/2015 7:26:52 AM PDT by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: Azeem

Tried for Arabic, couldn’t get it. Korean was where the open slots were at that particular time, apparently.


30 posted on 04/11/2015 7:38:11 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: rlmorel

I remember that incident. Didn’t the US government recover that lost aircraft and missile?


31 posted on 04/11/2015 7:42:07 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( NEVER trust a politician with your firearm rights!)
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To: Delta 21

I’ll never be over Mucho Grande . . .


32 posted on 04/11/2015 8:26:01 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: tcrlaf

Brings back old days with China April 2001 and Spy Plane had to land on Military base in China.Chinese pilot died


33 posted on 04/11/2015 8:35:02 AM PDT by philly-d-kidder (AB-Sheen"The truth is the truth if nobody believes it,a lie is still a lie, everybody believes it")
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To: tenger

Not tcrlaf


34 posted on 04/11/2015 8:44:51 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Paid_Russian_Troll; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty ping.


35 posted on 04/11/2015 10:37:34 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Paid_Russian_Troll

The Soviet Union is back and Tsar Russia is claiming a lot more territory it seems


36 posted on 04/11/2015 10:46:41 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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To: tenger

In my day, the Russian courses were taught at Syracuse. Albanian and some of the more esoteric tongues were taught at Indiana. Mandarin was taught at Berkeley. No language for me then; I ended up at Goodfellow in 1960.


37 posted on 04/11/2015 12:20:27 PM PDT by Ax ("You'll Never Walk Alone" (LFC))
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To: rlmorel
Such were the state of affairs in the Cold War...we used to have Soviet trawlers trailing us, and when you looked through the binoculars at them, there seemed like 10 sailors on there with binoculars just looking back at you.

They used to do that near Kennedy Space Center during the space shuttle era. IRRC, one launch had to be scrubbed and rescheduled because a large Russian "fishing boat" wandered inside the safety zone down range.

38 posted on 04/11/2015 2:22:51 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Alas Babylon!; American_Centurion; An.American.Expatriate; ASA.Ranger; ASA Vet; Ax; Azeem; ...

MI Ping


39 posted on 04/11/2015 2:30:50 PM PDT by ASA Vet (We weren't here, We were never there, We don't exist, we never did.)
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To: ASA Vet

thank you. Cold War, Part 2


40 posted on 04/11/2015 3:07:51 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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