Posted on 10/31/2001 4:20:33 PM PST by Windy-Dave
Buff's,Ah! I love the sight of Carpet Bombing in the morning. Nothing like Whistleing Death falling all around! This is how I made my living for a time in the 1960's. As a Jet Engine Technician I would watch those Big Ugly Fat Fellows throw themselves off Paddy's Point on Guam laden with a full rack and bombays of ordinance on its way to Vietnam's jungles.
Contrary to popular belief we did not just kill a bunch of monkeys or lizzards. This still is the ultimate non nuclear weapons platform if used that way! It could be used as full nuclear if desired and then all bets are off. This is what terror is all about if you are on the receiving end of its load. The NVA crouching in the Central Highlands of Vietnam were burried alive in their tunnels never knowing what hit them from 7 miles up. They learned how to die in droves;ask the survivors if you can find any if it succeeded as a Terror Weapon! This weapon platform works equally as well in the windswept valleys of Afganistan as well as the high mountaious regions. This will seal them up to freeze in the dark. They will find it hard to keep from shaking not from the cold but from all the bombing going on all around them.
Even technology as old or older than the pilots flying them makes no difference, it still gets the desired results. Fear is instilled and the message is clear, choose where you want to die we can deliver the goods or the bads as the case may be. Sure makes me warm and fuzzy and brings a lot of memories flooding back reminding me of when I had a life that counted for something!
Kinda like the PC version of SNAFU = Situation Normal, All Fouled Up!
I remember one of my favorite words from that time ARCLIGHT.
Walking the line.
Are you an ex BUF/BUFF crew member? Are others on line who can resolve this boiling controversy?
No - I'm an ex-Navy type who, er, spoke to these fellows on occasion from Point Yankee. Once upon a time, long, long ago...and they are anything but "fat" - overhead they look like a pencil attached to a boomerang. Underneath is a nice place to be at an airbase and living hell in a target zone.
This probably won't resolve the controversy, but in my day the B-52s were "BUF".
A "BUFF" was a "Big Ugly Friendly Fellow", Jolly Green Giant (CH-47?).
Boeing Chinook CH-47
More Big Ugly Fat Fellows
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