Pinch passes word that Robin Olds is in the hospital and in poor shape (see his post over at Black5) and offers a link to pass along your best wishes. Back in YHS’ halcyon youth, Olds was well remembered for his exploits in the F-4 over SEA. As CO of the of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (the Wolfpack), Colonel Olds led them through a year where the Wolfpack amassed 24 MiG victories (1967). Take a moment for a still living legend (even one in AF blue…) – SJS
(h/t to Southern Air Pirate for the topic suggestion) 29 April 1975. South Vietnam is ceasing to exist as a geopolitical entity – Saigon is falling. Under leaden skies, the assembled ships and aircraft of TF 76, headed by carriers Hancock and Midway begin executing Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of US personnel along with Vietnamese…
Yeah, it was the OPNAV credo… From the good folks at the poster creator (h/t: CSA)
In every battle there is a moment when the combatants, and the world, seem to catch their breath. It is a fleeting moment, lost in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, everything changes. Such moments are borne of desperation, of courage, of plain dumb luck. But they are pivotal — for…
… or, *ahem* one “blown joke” Update from the Air Force-Army game:
Breathes there a soul so dead that these words don’t send a chill through the spine? When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to…
14/0819L Jan 1969: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) is conducting workups in preparations for combat operations off North Vietnam with CVW-9 embarked. First event for the day has just been launched and respot for second event is underway. USS Bainbridge and Rogers are in company. Aft of the isalnd, the exhaust from an "huffer" (jet starting unit) has…
