From: Bill Darron
To: xxx; xxx; xxx
Cc: Bcc: xxx
Date: Thursday, July 27, 1995 11:58PM
Cool stuff eh?
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: Rick Greenhut, xxx
TO: Liz Savery, xxx
DATE: 6/30/95 6:03 PM
RE: Bosnia Rescue E-Mail
Liz,
Get a load of this!
Rick Greenhut
Date: 29-Jun-95 09:18 EDT
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Subject: Fwd: Scott O'Grady "Chain Let...
Rick,
Even if this is a cyber-hoax, it still is a pretty good yarn.
jef
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Forwarded message:
Subj: Fwd: Scott O'Grady "Chain Let...
Date: 95-06-28 18:04:05 EDT
From: Tashbook
To: xxx@tevm2.nsc.com
To: xxx@clubhouse.email.net
To: xxx@chrysalis.org
To: xxx@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: xxx@pitt.edu,KNISHNTELL
To: xxx,xxx,xxx
To: xxx
To: xxx@pasha.nrl.navy.mil
To: xxx@orionsci.com,xxx
To: xxx
Hi guys,
This fascinating (though dubiously authentic) piece of Americana/email chain
letter arrived on my little Mac via a buddy who writes the cyberspace column
at the Orlando Sentinel. It's too neat not to pass on. THIS is why I'm an
Internet Evangelist...;) Even if it's NOT true, it's cool. I bet everyone
with an email address has this by the end of the week...!
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Forwarded message:
Subj: Fwd: Scott O'Grady "Chain Let...
Date: 95-06-28 11:26:42 EDT
From: Kilz
To: Tashbook
This was kinda cool :)
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Forwarded message:
From: xxx@osentinel.com (Joe Kilsheimer)
To: xxx@aol.com
Date: 95-06-28 11:01:15 EDT
>From: Jarrat Koatz Catherine <xxx@cmp.com>
>To: Rick Tetzeli/Fortune <xxx@compuserve.com>,
> Bruce Francis/CNBC <xxx@aol.com>,
> "Joe Kilsheimer/Orlando Sent." <xxx@osentinel.com>,
> Karen Marrero/Washington Post <xxx@washpost.com>,
> Walter Mossberg/WSJ <xxx@wsj.com>,
> Paul Eng/BusinessWeek <xxx@aol.com>,
> Philip Elmer-Dewitt/Time <xxx@aol.com>
>To: "'Scott Donaton/Ad Age'" <xxx@eworld.com>
>Subject: Scott O'Grady "Chain Letter"
>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 09:41:00 PDT
>Encoding: 567 TEXT
>
>
>I'm sending this to you FYI and also hoping that one of you would have the
>means to check out whether or not this is authentic. If it is, WOW! If
>not, it's an interesting hoax to play on the Net (maybe even a way for the
>Australian PC Group to advertise?).
>
>All the best,
>Catherine Jarrat Koatz
>CMP Corporate Communications
>xxx@cmp.com
>(000) 000-0000
> ----------
>From: Kerbel Barbara
>To: Jarrat Koatz Catherine; Stern Elizabeth; Schwartz Joan; Piazza Lorraine
>Subject: FW: Fwd: The rest of the story....
>Date: Wednesday, June 28, 1995 8:51AM
>
>check this out.....
> ----------
>From: xxx
>To: xxx
>Subject: Fwd: The rest of the story....
>Date: Tuesday, June 27, 1995 8:24PM
>
>Thought you might find this interesting... Alan
> ---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>Subj: Fwd: The rest of the story....
>Date: 95-06-27 09:32:33 EDT
>From: xxx
>To: xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
>To: xxx,xxx,xxx
>
>Thought you might like the story of Scott O'Grady's rescue straight from the
>flyboys at Aviano....the Forward list is half the fun. :)
>
>Me....
> ---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>Subj: Fwd: The rest of the story....
>Date: 95-06-26 23:30:19 EDT
>From: Willie451
>To: xxx
>
>Thought you might get a kick out of this- it's the real thing, and the
>forward list is pretty amazing...
>
>Steve
> ---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>From: 72642.1641@compuserve.com (Mark Williams)
>To: xxx@essex.hsc.colorado.edu (Sharane Darlington),
>xxx@sparta.sjsu.edu (Georgia Fujikawa), xxx@eworld.com (Larry
>Williams), xxx@aol.com (Steve Williams), xxx@ccnet.com (Janet
>Williams), xxx@compuserve.com (Margery Williams),
>xxx@compuserve.com (Tom Williams), xxx@aa.washington.edu (John
>Williams), xxx@compuserve.com (Kevin Williams), xxx@hooked.net
>(Christopher Dye), xxx@compuserve.com (Russell Linscot)
>Date: 95-06-26 14:54:46 EDT
>
>Thought this thread was pretty cool.
>
>>>> Michael Connolly <xxx@microsoft.com> 06/23/95 11:45am >>>
>Pretty damn interesting. A lot of forwards, but a real interesting account
>of the Bosnia rescue at the bottom.
>
> ----------
>From: Kent Sisco
>To: Christopher Callahan; Mark Parris; Mark Peterson (Excel); Michael
>Connolly
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Friday, June 23, 1995 11:22AM
>
>
> ----------
>From: Reginald Hopkins
>To: David Dumler; David Gappmayer; David Berge; Fred Chao; Jay Abbott;
> Raymond
>Sam; Sandra Martinez; jklupar; Kent Sisco
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 6:02PM
>
>
>Just thought you all might find this interesting..... -Reginald
> -----Original Message-----
>
>From: Jon Solon
>Sent: June 22, 1995 4:18 PM
>To: hglide
>Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>
> ----------
>From: Brad Hinkel
>To: Simulations Product Unit - perm only
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 3:47PM
>Priority: Low
>
>The real world can definitely make for an interesting story. I like the
>telling of the story as much as the story itself.
>Brad
> ----------
>From: "Karen E. White" <xxx@stlabs.com>
>To: Brad Hinkel; "Zine.Rif" <xxx@software.rockwell.com>
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 3:29PM
>
> ----------
>From: Tom Arnold
>To: TrivialPursuits (Non-business)
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 2:43PM
>
>Ain't technology grand? Look through all of the forwards. Something I
>found interesting is how many of these names I recognize closer to the top.
>
>The following is -- unconfirmed -- a report by one of the guys who was part
>of bringing O'Grady home.
>
>Tom
> ----------
>From: Edward Bryce
>To: xxx
>Cc: xxx; xxx; xxx; xxx
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 12:25
>
> ----------
>From: "Wayland Wasserman Starwave" <xxx@starwave.com>
>To: "Randy Chapman Starwave" <xxx@starwave.com>; 'alanr'
><xxx@mailgate.dynmx.com>; 'alans'
><xxx@kaworlds.com>; 'colela' <xxx@kaworlds.com>; danno
><xxx@maui.com>; 'hwasse' <xxx@seaccc.sccd.ctc.edu>; 'jeffb'
><xxx@edmark.com>; 'John Boy'
><xxx@mailgate.dynmx.com>; kbrebner
><xxx@solitude.mv.us.adobe.com>; Kyle Hayes
><xxx@gumball.dev.kaworlds.com>; laurelm
><xxx@hubble.asymetrix.com>; 'rbo' <xxx@edmark.com>; Edward Bryce
>(Bryce Publications); 'wyeth' <xxx@oncology.wisc.edu>
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>(fwd)
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 10:05AM
>
>
>The foreward list on this is amazing. This started with one of the pilots
>on the O'Grady rescue posting the story on compuserve and from there has
>rolled to the rest of the world.
>
>W
> ----------
>From: Jeff Rollosson Halbhuber (Star
>To: Wayland Wasserman (xxx); bernardl; Moon; Cheryl Dyson; Chris
>Deputy; David Bennett; Kim Adams; Alan Fling; Lou Erikson; Matthew; Paul
>Atkinson; Christine Mood; Melissa Rollosson; Richard Malsch; Scott
>Hysmith;
>Chuck; 'Tim Lesher'; The Whackos at Twisted Radio
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>(fwd)
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 9:02AM
>
>Forwards NOT removed. That's half the story...
>
> --JLRH
> ----------
>From: Darrin House
>To: jeffrh; /G=HOLLI/S=COLEMAN; Dutchin Wong; Brent Gilbert; 'Mike
>Stacie'; timl
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>(fwd)
>Date: Thursday, June 22, 1995 8:34AM
>
>After wading thru and INCREDIBLE thread - there is a pretty cool message at
>the bottom.
>
>darrin.
> ----------
>From: Chris Van Noy (Starwave)
>To: Steve "The Animal" Strom; 'Darwin House'; Pouche; '"Emmitt" Money';
>Amie Baldwin; CHRIS LINDBERG; Jason Davis; Tracy Recker; Trent Nevills
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>(fwd)
>Date: Wednesday, June 21, 1995 1:38PM
>
>This is really a cool story. It's an e-mail from one of the F-16 pilots
>that was involved in the rescue of Scott O'Grady, the downed US pilot in
>Bosnia. I left all the forwards on here (and there are a lot of them)
>because it is pretty interesting to see the path it took from Bosnia (half a
>world away) to here in Seattle. And I totally agree with the Jeff, the guy
>who sent it to me, ... It's one of the coolest pieces of e-mail I have ever
>seen.
>
>Chris
> ----------
>From: Jeff Day (Starwave)
>To: JUNKMAIL (Starwave)
>Subject: FW: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>(fwd)
>Date: Wednesday, June 21, 1995 12:59PM
>
>One of the coolest pieces of e-mail I've ever seen...
>
> ----------
>From: xxx
>To: xxx; xxx; xxx; xxx; xxx; xxx; xxx
>Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story (fwd)
>Date: Wednesday, June 21, 1995 10:51AM
>
>Return-Path: <xxx@halcyon.com>
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 10:51:42 -0700
>Message-Id: <xxx@halcyon.com>
>X-Sender: xxx@mail.halcyon.com
>X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>To: xxx@microsoft.com, xxx@microsoft.com, xxx@starwave.com,
> xxx@ssl.umd.edu, xxx@intermind.com, xxx@ee.washington.edu,
> xxx@cadvision.com (E.F. (Ted) Green)
>From: xxx@halcyon.com (Jerry Parrish)
>Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story (fwd)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Straight (sorta) from the horse's mouth...
>
>#: 838434 S16/Hangar Flying
> 20-Jun-95 22:19:48
>Sb: #More Juvat Rescue Info
>Fm: Les Bell [YSBK] xxx
>To: M.F.Kirby xxx (X)
>
>Kirby, I figured you'd appreciate this one. Amazing the way this message has
>snaked its way around the world!
>
> --- Forwarded message ---
>
> #: 1511 S0/CompuServe Mail [MAIL]
> 21-Jun-95 14:05 UTC+10
> Sb: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story (fwd)
> Fm: INTERNET:xxx@home.melbpc.org.au
>
>Sender: xxx@home.melbpc.org.au Received: from koala.melbpc.org.au by
>arl-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515)
> id XAA23056; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:54:38 -0400 Received: from
>home.UUCP
>(xxx@localhost) by koala.melbpc.org.au (8.6.10/8.6.10) with
>UUCP id NAA28105; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 13:28:43 +1000 Received: by
>home.melbpc.org.au (1.65/waf)
> via UUCP; Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:30:03 +1000 From: xxx@home.melbpc.org.au
>(Ash Nallawalla) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:29:56
>+1000 Message-ID: <xxx@home.melbpc.org.au> Reply-To:
>xxx@melbpc.org.au To: xxx@symantec.com, xxx@compuserve.com
>Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story (fwd)
>Organization: Melbourne PC User Group, Australia X-Mailer: Helldiver 1.08
>(Waffle 1.65) Lines: 273
>
>Gordon, Les,
>
>You folks are into things aeronautic and aquatic, so you will get a buzz out
>of this one. Pass it on -- Ash
>
>PS - Gordon, Les Bell is a noted journalist and an international OS/2
>trainer when he is not flying out of Sydney. Les, Gordon is a pretty
>important guy at Symantec and was in the Navy :-)
>
>Forwarded message: From gsh Tue Jun 20 14:30:46 1995 Date: Tue, 20 Jun
>1995 13:05:09 -0400 From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
>Message-Id: <199506201705.NAA21876@python.bostic.com> To:
>/dev/null@python.bostic.com Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue --
>The Rest of the Story Sender: xxx@iti.org
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To:
>fj@bedford.progress.com
> Jeff,
> Don't know if you have seen this yet. Thought you'd enjoy
> it. Bob
>
> PS. Half of the story is the route this has taken to get
> here from the Bosnia. We now have given warriors the
> technology to report directly from the battlefield rather
> than leaving it to the news anchors to garble the story.
> Could be a defining moment in news history.
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Author: TDOLAN at PTPLAN2
>Date: 6/14/95 2:18 PM
>
>FYI Tom Dolan __________________________________ Subject: FW: RESCUED! --
>The Rest of the Story Author: xxx@ccmailpc.ctron.com at INTERNET Date:
>6/14/95 1:05 PM
>
>I thought you guys may find this interesting.
>
>Tony P.S. BEAT NAVY!!
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Author: xxx@pencom.com
>at
>!INTERNET Date: 06/14/95 10:12 AM
>
>=*= =*= AOG-NET Message Router, Majordomo (1.93), wp-forum =!= PENCOM
>(PSW) does NOT guarantee the technical accuracy nor any =!= claims made nor
>does PENCOM necessarily agree with the =!= issues/topics discussed in this
>list.
>=*=
>
>Check out the forwarding history on this one! Original E-mail from the
>F-16 squadron at Aviano.
>
>Mike Cochrane '79
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Author: Timothy Clapp at
>~tea06 Date: 6/14/95 9:38 AM
>
>Best story I've read in a long time. Enjoy!
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Author: ,"Avery, Mike MAJ
>(USACAP)" <xxx@shafter-emh3.army.mil> at DDN/Internet Date: 6/13/95
>1:18 PM
>
>Originated-by: "Avery, Mike MAJ (USACAP)" <xxx@shafter-emh3.army.mil>
>To: Timothy Clapp <xxx@baileys-emh5.army.mil> Subject: FW: RESCUED! --
>The Rest of the Story Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 13:18:00 PDT
>
>Hey Tim,
>
>Here's a true story for you.
>
>Mike
> ---------- Originated-by: Woltz, Al LTC To: VanDyke, L. MAJ (Div Chem);
>Boaldin, Bob; Davis, Walter C. MSG (DCSOPS); Neal, Barry MAJ; Toyama,
>Jann; Tune, John MW4; Wolozyn, Michael D. LTC; Avery, Mike MAJ (USACAP);
>'MAJ Tom Woloszyn' Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Date:
>Monday, June 12, 1995 4:50PM
>
> ---------- Originated-by: Scott, Thomas D. COL (DCSOPS) To: Patykula, T.
>LTC; Aguigui, Henry SGM; Bailey, Kenneth R. (ADCSOPS); Ball, Stephen C.
>LTC; Belleperche, Keyko CPT; Carr, Audrey LTC; Durante, Kirk L. LTC;
>Gibson, Joe LTC; Krammer, Frank LTC; Sorensen, Clark LTC; Welch, Douglas
>LTC; Woltz, Al LTC Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story Date:
>Monday, June 12, 1995 4:35PM
>
>FYI
> ---------- Originated-by: Pernell, Mark COL (DCSINT) To: Hale, David R.
>E. MG (DCG); Ord, Robert L. III LTG (CG); Wintrich, Frederick COL(DCofS);
>Scott, Thomas D. COL (DCSOPS) Subject: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Date: Friday, 09 June, 1995 12:25
>
>Sir, FYI.
> ---------- Originated-by: Boyd, Kenneth K. CPT To: Pernell, Mark S. COL
>(DCSINT) Subject: FW: Fwd: RESCUED! Date: Friday, June 09, 1995 11:45AM
>
>For your reading pleasure,
>
> Capt Boyd
> ---------- Originated-by: DOTW_Westberry To: ALL/DO Subject: RE: Fwd:
>RESCUED! Date: Friday, June 09, 1995 8:02AM
>
>Lets hear it for the good guys!!!
>
>Westy
>__________________________________________________________________________
>
>_ ___ _ Originated-by: xxx@aol.com on Fri, Jun 9, 1995 3:57 AM
>Subject:
>Fwd: RESCUED! To: xxx@txskf.ang.af.mil; xxx@genie.geis.com;
>xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com;
>xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com; xxx@compuserve.com;
>xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com; xxx@aol.com;
>xxx@aol.com
>
>An awesome story...
>
>Crab
> --------------------- Forwarded message: Originated-by:
>xxx@compuserve.com (Scott Zobrist) To:
> xxx@compuserve.com
>(STEPHEN G BOJACK), xxx@compuserve.com (EDWARD W BROCKHAUS),
>xxx@aol.com (Manning, Crab), xxx@compuserve.com (JAMES C FOGLE),
>xxx@hq.centaf.af.mil (Jane/CCA), xxx@compuserve.com (BRIAN J
>MCCULLOUGH), xxx@emh.misawa.af.mil (T.J. Miller),
>xxx@compuserve.com (GREGORY A MOORE), xxx@compuserve.com
>(PARKER J PENNINGS), xxx@compuserve.com (MARC SASSEVILLE),
>xxx@compuserve.com (TODD K SHEEHY), xxx@emh.kunsan.af.mil
>(Chris
>Weggeman), xxx@emh.kunsan.af.mil (Kunsan Weapons)
>
>Date: 95-06-08 19:32:48 EDT
>
>(8 Jun 95) To all my Viper buds and other Shit Hot Fighter Gods on the net
>
> It was a good day at Aviano! As you guys have no doubt heard, we
>rescued Scott "Zulu" O'Grady today after 6 days of E&Eing in the Bosnian
>countryside. We had an idea that he was still out there but hadn't had
>positive radio contact until about 0000Z this morning when Capt T.O.
>Hanford had some extra gas so he stayed in his CAP a little longer and tried
>to reach Zulu on the SAR A (PRC-112) freq from the day of the shoot down.
> After about 40 minutes of calls in the blind, T.O. started getting some
>suspect clicks on the mike. Finally, Zulu came up voice. T.O. didn't have
>all the info from Zulu's ISOPREP so he came up with a quick way to verify it
>was indeed Zulu, although it sounded like Zulu recognized T.O.'s voice and
>called him by name (although the comm was weak since T.O. (Basher 11) was
>about 70 miles away). The comm went something like this.
>
>"Basher 52 this is Basher 11" click "Basher 52, this is Basher 11, are you
>up on this freq" "This is Basher 52" "Say again, understand this is
>Basher 52" "This is Basher 52...I'm alive" "Say again, Basher 52, you are
weak
>and unreadable, this is Basher 11" "This is Basher 52!"
>
>pause
>
>"Basher 52, what squadron were you in at Kunsan?" "Juvats! Juvats! I'm
>alive!" "Copy that, you're alive! Basher 52, sit tight and come back up at
>15 past the hour"
>
> T.O. then started coordinating with Magic to pass words to the
>Deny Flight CAOC (command center) that he had positive radio contact with
>Basher 52. They replied that T.O. should pass the word "manana" to
>Basher 52.
> When he did, Zulu replied "I want to get picked up tonight!" (imagine
>that). So T.O. passed that to the CAOC and the decision was made to press
>with a rescue. We were 2 hours before sunrise so it would be daylight but
>there was concern (rightly so) that word would get out to the press and every
>SA-6 in the AOR would be mobile and spiking us and the rest of the rescue
>package. So they went ASAP.
>
> T.O. stayed airborne (now at about the 4 hour point in his sortie
> - one note here: T.O. got high marks for wingman consideration for
>advising is wingman that it was a good time to take a piss on the way to the
>tanker! That video clip probably won't make CNN) and the 510 FS Buzzards
>scrambled our alert guys (I was #2). Unfortunately, Vaughn "Slot"
>Littlejohn and I had just gone from 60 minute alert to 180 minute alert and
>I had headed home to get some sleep. The phone rang at about 0255L
>(after about 10 minutes of sleep) telling me to get in there ASAP. I was
>back at the SQ in 15 minutes.
> Before I was even in the door, our ADO, Phil "Psycho" Sever told me we had
>positive radio contact, get dressed, step, crank, and taxi ASAP - I would
>meet SLOT in EOR whenever he made it in. We were in the air at about 0400L
>(1+05 from a dead sleep at home) loaded with 2xGBU-12s, 2 slammers, 2 9Ms, a
>131 pod, and 2 tanks (Standard DF SCL). We swapped out with T.O. manning the
>cap and staying in touch with Zulu every 15 minutes.
>A SEAD package was getting airborne as T.O. started his RTB. We had a plan
>with the F-18Ds (Harm shooters (kind of), with NVGs and a WSO), EFs, and
>EA-6Bs to try to establish contact. But since we already had contact, the
>F-18s just did a recce run to get a good fix on him and to check the weather.
>
> Meanwhile, Zobe the hero, callsign Rock 42, was hanging on Slot's
>wing 70 miles away listening to the whole thing, ensuring my tape was on.
>I can't wait to tell my grandkids about the day I put all my Weapons
>School training to use - "No shit, kids, there I was - tape on, tape off,
>tape on, tape off. The pressure was incredible!" Seriously, although I
>didn't do shit, it was shit hot to listen to the entire mission unfolding.
>The helos were inbound, authenicating Zulu (they asked him what he was
>called in high school when he got drunk!) With a good ID they moved in, had
>Zulu pop some smoke, and picked him up. The whole thing from the
>authentication to the pick-up was about 10 minutes (seemed like an eternity).
>To hear comm like, "Basher 52, got you in sight", was pretty moving,
>especially after thinking for most of the week that Zulu was a mort ("Wilbur"
>Wright didn't see a chute, no radio contact, etc.) I've never been choked up
>in the jet before, but I was this morning.
>
> Unfortunately, they weren't out of danger yet. We hit the tanker
>and when we came back up to Magic freq the helos were about 13 miles from
feet
>wet. Then I heard the escort chopper, c/s Bull, say, "Bud, impacts
underneath
>you. SAMS IN THE AIR! SAMS IN THE AIR!" FUCK!! Luckily, they missed,
>although they took some small arms fire and apparently the gunner from Bull
>silenced that. About 10 minutes later, we heard the call that they were feet
>wet, then shortly after that that they had "mother in sight" (the ship), two
>more bits of comm that I will never forget.
>
> So we got one of our own back. What a day. I wish we could have
>done more in the rescue but it was almost entirely a Navy and Marine show
>(we and the mud-eagles were in the cap) and they kicked ass. So don't bad
>mouth the squids and jarheads too loudly - they put on a good act today and
>we've ot a Viper driver back because of it.
>
> I thought you might enjoy hearing the story straight from the
>CSAR Commander of VTR Ops! Hope it wasn't too mushy, but after all, I did
cry
>when I watched Old Yeller. That's just the emotional type of guy I am!
> Hope all is well with you guys at your various bases. Drop me a line and
>let me know what's up. Fly safe, check six, and pray for the UN leadership
to
>get a clue and let us blow these bastards back into the stone age!
>
>Zobe
>
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