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Old May 1st, 2008, 06:52   #19
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Default Re: becoming a fighter pilot? help

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Originally Posted by aloft View Post
I'd freakin LOVE to hear about that particular mission over a coupla brewskis!
Well, I'm not talking on one sortie. I was referring to cumulatively.

In OIF, for the first two weeks of the war we regularly went out with 9 x GBU-12s on board and brought whole 2-ship and 4-ship formations back completely clean of bombs.

In OEF it isn't nearly that active on a daily basis, but there is still a ton or ordnance being dropped. In my squadron's 4-month stint there last summer, we strafed more 20mm rounds than the entire F-15E community had strafed in combat cumulatively up until that time (over 25,000 rounds).
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