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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

zipmartin

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That sunrise shot is amazing! Best I've ever seen. "Lights" was well-known throughout the east coast A-7 community for his photos which were always prominent at every Corsair Ball.
 
HeyJoe

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zipmartin said:
That sunrise shot is amazing! Best I've ever seen. "Lights" was well-known throughout the east coast A-7 community for his photos which were always prominent at every Corsair Ball.
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We met aboard America in 82 and did 2 tours there as CAG Paddles and DH while I did back to back tours in VF-102. When I went to JFK as a DH in VF-32, he was XO in VA-72. So we did a lot of sea time together and were always in the Photo Lab at night reviewing our processed film. When he retired as Commodore of STRKFITWING, I was taking pictures from police car leading procession of Harleys from Hangar to OClub.
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HeyJoe said:
We met aboard America in 82 and did 2 tours there as CAG Paddles and DH while I did back to back tours in VF-102. When I went to JFK as a DH in VF-32, he was XO in VA-72. So we did a lot of sea time together and were always in the Photo Lab at night reviewing our processed film. When he retired as Commodore of STRKFITWING, I was taking pictures from police car leading procession of Harleys from Hangar to OClub.
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Walleye!!!

My only reference to that specific weapon is a Lex story that involves one and the lengths some are willing to go to drop it:
www.google.com

Flat Hatting

By lex, on Thu – February 17, 2005 So, it’s flat hatting stories you want, is it? Fine. Buckle in. This isn’t one of my own stories, but one of someone else’s experience. Be…
www.google.com www.google.com
 
HeyJoe

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Walleye!!!

My only reference to that specific weapon is a Lex story that involves one and the lengths some are willing to go to drop it:
www.google.com

Flat Hatting

By lex, on Thu – February 17, 2005 So, it’s flat hatting stories you want, is it? Fine. Buckle in. This isn’t one of my own stories, but one of someone else’s experience. Be…
www.google.com www.google.com
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Walleye was here....Al Qa’im Super Phosphate Plant and reputed WMD production site for Yellowcake. It was pretty heavily defended for a fertilizer plant! It was subjected to B-52 strikes as well as F-15E missions. The B-52s missed altogether due to winds aloft and the SAMs got the F-15E senior guy. Over to Navy for attention by SLAM and Walleye producing damage seen here captured by F-14 TARPS.

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The Walleye Guidance Unit was also used for SLAM although the A-6E carried the SLAM and a hapless A-7E guided it to the target. We put the first one into Al Qa’im
 
ea6bflyr

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HeyJoe said:
Walleye was here....Al Qa’im Super Phosphate Plant and reputed WMD production site for Yellowcake. It was pretty heavily defended for a fertilizer plant! It was subjected to B-52 strikes as well as F-15E missions. The B-52s missed altogether due to winds aloft and the SAMs got the F-15E senior guy. Over to Navy for attention by SLAM and Walleye producing damage seen here captured by F-14 TARPS.


The Walleye Guidance Unit was also used for SLAM although the A-6E carried the SLAM and a hapless A-7E guided it to the target. We put the first one into Al Qa’im
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That's a long way to travel from the Gulf....I'm assuming you came via the Red Sea or Med?
 
HeyJoe

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Like HP says, we were in Red Sea with Sara for the duration. America was with us initially. We worked central and western Iraq mostly but went to Kuwait and the eastern border of Iraq routinely with assistance of USAF tankers.
 
Jim123

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I wonder if you guys ever flew over the Jordanian King's yacht on your way to or from a mission.
 
HeyJoe

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Jim123 said:
I wonder if you guys ever flew over the Jordanian King's yacht on your way to or from a mission.
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We steered clear of Jordan but had CAP Station watching the Northern end of Red Sea in case Iraqis tried an end run through Jordan. We were cleared to fly over Saudi Arabia but stayed 12+ nm away from Jordan.
 
HeyJoe

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@Jim123, from the Red Sea, we flew due east for our tanker tracks over Saudi Arabia passing over the Hajez Railway that took the faithful to Mecca from as far north as Constantinople in heady days of the Ottoman Empire. This was the land of Bedouin Tribes that Lawrence of Arabia once roamed while interdicting the railway that the Turks used to ferry supplies and troops. And we had a grandstand view like this one in height of Desert Storm.
 
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HeyJoe

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Heading to work from the Read Sea to Iraq during Desert Storm over rugged Saudi badlands once roamed by Lawrence of Arabia. You can see why he was able to elude the Turks that did not stray far from the Hajez Railway and lifeline.
 
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