by | September 23, 2012 · 8:21 am

Sunday Morning Intruders


Hey, URR, check out how sharp the FACs are. And my eyes aren’t as sharp as they once were, but is that Schlitz?

About these ads

4 Comments

Filed under ARMY TRAINING

4 Responses to Sunday Morning Intruders

  1. ultimaratioregis
    September 23, 2012 at 11:34 am

    Why yes, that is Schlitz. And cigarettes. Today they would be morally unfit to bomb people.

    Nice footage of Onslow Beach, Bogue Field, and the run in from IP Queen’s Creek to the G-10 Impact Area. Yes, RABFAC missions were something else. Still a “gee-whiz” when I went to Sill in ’86. A good FAC and pilot could get it “in the infield” in any weather.

    We miss the A-6E and the F-4 Phantom. They carried a MAN’s load of ordnance.

    • xbradtc
      September 23, 2012 at 11:44 am

      For you non fire support aficionados, RABFAC is Radar Beacon Forward Air Control. A transponder on the ground serves as a discrete known point for the attacking aircraft. By generating an offset (direction and distance) the Intruder could make a blind drop far more accurately than guesstimating from a hilltop or other terrain feature off the radar.

  2. ultimaratioregis
    September 23, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    Now Brad, if you are gonna tell them all the cool stuff, then they will know what we are talking about when we use jargon! We will be a lot less cool!

  3. BUTCH
    September 23, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    The A-6 was the only tactical aircraft we did not offer through Foreign Military Sales.