Tuesday, December 2, 2014

NEARER TO GOD

I admired the men and women who flew missions in support of SOUTHERN WATCH. They got into aircraft everyday and flew over an impressively armed Iraq. They flew in planes that were maintained by men and women living far from home, frequently in conditions that boggle the mind of people who have never deployed on aircraft carriers or operated out of the Kingdom. It is a dangerous and lonely profession.

We lost a pilot today flying in support of the war we claim we are not fighting in Syria.

Two F-16s getting ready to take off in support of Southern Watch in 2000

2 comments:

Buck said...

I read this first thing this morning; it was the lead item in the AFA Daily Report.

RIP.

HMS Defiant said...

Abide with God.