Tank Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 To the Fallin Angels... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60 driver Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 If it wasn't already mentioned, Kadena helos, Alaska ANG PJs. Our AK guys have had a hell of a year. This is their second mission of this magnitude just from this rotation, and incidentally, two of the guys in the linked article were also on this one last summer up here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/seasoned-alaska-pilot-recounts-knik-glacier-crash-landing ...along with many more non-headline making missions both deployed and at home. They and the Kadena guys are all ######ing studs, and they're leaving some big new footprints to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Just in case any of you guys associated with CSAR haven't heard of this group I thought I would post it here. Great opportunity to reach across generations. They've got some great events scheduled this year. Society of Combat Search and Resue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stract Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 I helped host their event at Moody in 05 I think it was, and I'm on the e-mail list. Too bad I'll be in the midst of formal training when this year's event occurs with the Navy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 If there's an A-10 squadron commander who will not approve a cross country for this event have him call me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busdriver Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I really wish I could go to this event. Getting to hear the story of Streetcar 304 from those that were there is epic. The last time I got to sit in on this was BGen(ret) Dale Stovall talk about his pickup of Roger Locher just outside of a North Vietnamese Mig base, just outside of Hanoi. Fuck every stupid award ceremony, getting to hang with the old guys and swap war stories over a couple beers is everything shop talk in the bar should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breckey Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 He came and talked at the zoo a couple years ago. Everybody else was in suits and he was still rocking his green party suit. True badass for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTQ Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 (edited) At least you guys come with your own guns. I head to the stan at the end of the year. With my experience being in guns and ODIN/Liberty, MEDEVAC is a very different type of creature. We have the AMEDD community still trying to hang on to MEDEVAC but Aviation is continuing to take over the mission. Not being a med guy, it is hard for me to understand why we would ever tell everyone not only are we unarmed, that we have medicine onboard but we also give them a nice little cross hairs to shoot at. I feel somewhat confident in the statement that the people we are fighting in Afghanistan, didn't sign the Geneva Convention. That being said, AF CSAR is filling vital hole even if they are doing very few of the type of missions they train for. Edited September 6, 2011 by OverTQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60 driver Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Society of Combat Search and Resue Went to the first one (I think) in 1998 at Nellis. If I remember correctly it was the first full up debrief of the Streetcar 304 mission by the guys involved since the shootdown. I'll echo Rainman - well worth the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy.The.Engineer Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 That'll never change. ###### 'em. There is no way to agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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