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AWESOME, if it is true. Hope it is.
There is so much false crap on the internet its hard to believe whats posted anymore.

Here's Tim's parents to tell the story



Pat P.

Enlisted aircrewman shoots down MIG


www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2012/January%202012/0112gunners.aspx

I was friends with another old AF guy at the Senior NCO Academy in 1984. He was a tail gunner on BUFF. During Linebacker II his aircraft was hit with a couple SAMS. He got credit for shooting down one. When the second SAM hit aircraft they lost all power and intercomm. As pilot was struggling to regain control, and after repeated tries to contact crew he ejected. When Gunner ejected it took entire tail cone with it. So after he left aircraft, the pilot was able to regain control and flew to Tan Son Nhut Air Base and the crew bailed out over friendly territory. He was in ocean for several hours before rescued. Rescue crews told him he was safe, but other crews were in enemy territory and he could wait. So he was picked up later that night and taken to DaNang AB and was able to talk to crew and his family from there. He said he had never paid that much attention to Bail out procedures, but after pod jettisones, gunner has to crawl out and manually deploy his chute. But he got Silver Star for his actions.

Would you go to combat with this man?


Phil “Hands” Handley

Colonel, USAF (Ret.)



Many years ago as a flight commander in an F-4 squadron, I was required to write an OER (Officer Effectiveness Report) on each of the pilots and WSOs (weapon systems officers) in my charge. This onerous task was flawed from the outset since it was assumed that the rater would render a totally honest assessment of an individual officer’s unique skills and capabilities as compared to a baseline his peers. Of course, this did not happen, as the slightest negative comment would almost always assure an undeserved denial of promotion … hence the infamous OER inflation creep emerged … where almost everyone was awarded “walk on water” evaluations.

Consequently, continuing PME (professional military education), endorsements from higher headquarters, the officer’s official picture, error free and perfectly typed and punctuated paperwork, assurance that every available space for comments was used, additional duties, and a dozen other irreverent factors that had little or nothing to do with the officer’s primary job as a fighter pilot or WSO.

All of this flawed process was exacerbated by the fact that this occurred during the “pre-computer era”, thus denying the rater with data banks of “flowery remarks”, synonyms, spell checkers, and printers. It was during this period that a Marine F-4 exchange pilot was assigned to my flight. After about six months, I got a letter from HQ Marine Corps requesting that I prepare an OER for this pilot.

The OER form was enclosed, with instructions that it was to be prepared by me, in my handwriting and returned as a single copy. There were several blocks to be checked, followed by a space for remarks that was only adequate for two to three short sentences … then, above my signature block was a question with two choices: “Would you go to combat with this officer?” Check either “yes or no.”

Talk about cutting through the crap! I was impressed at the time and to this day have never forgotten its bottom line simplicity and brilliance. Try applying that test to the current crop of “leaders” who are in charge of America’s destiny.

For starters:

President Barrack Obama

Vice-President Joe Biden

The President’s Cabinet

The President’s Czars

Attorney General Eric Holder

A majority of our elected congress

The Main Stream Media

Al Gore and his Climate Change BS

Senator John (two silver stars) Kerry

Others too numerous to mention

Maybe it’s just me, but I damn well would not willingly go to combat with any of them. How in hell did we let this happen before our very eyes … on our watch? We as a nation had better get a grip, turn out in mass for the 2012 national election and throw these self-serving jerks out of power before it is too late. I fear that four more years of political correctness, blatant socialist/Marxist policies, lack of backbone and disregard for our constitution will do irreparable damage. If we are to remain the greatest nation the world has ever seen, which was built on the loyalty, integrity and sacrifice of generations of patriots whose gym bag our current leadership couldn’t carry … We best get it done.



I have been there and done that too... AJ

YES, YES, but what kind of bears were they...and why were they watching.... :rofl

sorry,

I dropped by a couple of times yesterday and the place was deserted.  Church attendance was down yesterday, I guess driven by a 3-day weekend.

I took my PC outside yesterday and blew the dust out of it with an air hose.  Then I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot. 

Finally got that fixed and my Canon printer broke down (damn computers).  Found the fix on the Internet in the Tech Forums.  Turns out that most inkjet printer manufacturers put shutdown codes in their EPROMS so you have to take it to get service at a cost that is just a few bucks below replacing it with a new one. After a certain number of prints and cartridge changes that go into "Take me to the shop mode".  Ah, planned obsolescence programed in at the factory.  Well some smart techies figured out the sequence of two button codes that reset the EPROMS - problem solved.

Today I'm doing prep for a colonoscopy tomorrow.  That's always fun.  May be better than Obama Care where they just mail you a garden hose, flashlight and a roll of duct tape.


Pat P.

Jim Too,

Have you had any problem with those Costco refilled cartridges? I got a set for my HP printer and now the color rendition is out of whack.

Tom

You have to watch those ink cartridges.  They are all different between manufacturers and models.  Also the color output after a cartridge change can vary even though you replace it with a new cartridge from the same manufacturer or fill your own, or buy store refilled carts locally.

The model Canon i960 I have (vintage 2005) has ink tanks with no print heads built into them.  Instead it has a master print head that sits just below the 6 cartridges.  The reason I bought it was because it had great color picture printing and the tanks could be easily refilled without having to reset them or the counters in the printers control board.  I bought refill kits at Sam's Club for $29 or $39 and must have refilled cartridge sets of 6 over 70-80 times, saving many hundreds of dollars compared to using Canon carts at about $70-$80 per set of 6.

Finally my print head got gooed up and I had to change it at $70.  Ink can vary in color between batches and I always run a test print to make sure the coverage and colors are correct.  Sometimes they need tweaking a little.  The holes in print heads are measured in microns and the inks have to have specs that fall in the range of the print heads customers are using.  Color, particle size, drying time, viscosity, all have to be in a tight range for best results.  My printer usage declined sharply over 3 years and I started using store filled tanks rather than refilling myself.  When my local cart guy went out of business, I just started buying Canon carts again.  I may try some Costco refilled carts to see how they do.

Like Pastor Jim pointed out, they pretty much give the printers away to get you hooked on the cartridges.  The old Gillette razor and blades business model.  After all, at retail prices for the ink they sell, it works out to about $4000 a gallon and costs them about $20 a gallon.  Same with the phone companies, "Here's this free phone, now go use it and we'll charge you by the cost of your data downloads, uploads for the next two years of your contract".
Thanks,
Pat P.