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02-23-2009, 06:24 PM
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*** FA-18 Fighter vs Whoes Air Farce? ***
My brother just sent this to me...couldn't pass it up...
 In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be transiting Iranian airspace. This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination. I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It's too good not to pass along. The conversation went like this... Iranian Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.' Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.' Air Defense Radar: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!' Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!' Air Defense Radar: (no response ... total silence)
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02-23-2009, 06:55 PM
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Grunt grunt,
You guys live for this kind of Macho Man bull dont you ?? Disgusting bravado, and rampant nationalism. Maturation and evolution has not been paralell across the species.
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02-23-2009, 07:02 PM
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02-23-2009, 07:04 PM
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02-23-2009, 07:06 PM
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02-23-2009, 07:12 PM
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02-23-2009, 07:22 PM
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Then you have the others...  The only reason I posted it is that I thought it was funny from the standpoint that someone overseas thinks they can match anyone in the air...and when it's a "...come and bring it on..." response...nothing happens... Isn't it great that we live in a country that our guys can do the job that we've sent them to do, and yet, at the same time, we also have the ability to mouth off and back stab them, at our own peril and we still don't have to fear our government coming to our doors in the middle of the night to perform selective neighborhood improvement programs before our neighbors know we're gone...for good? Yah gotta' love us!!!
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02-23-2009, 07:25 PM
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02-23-2009, 07:30 PM
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What a meanie, that pilot -- saying mean words to an anonymous Iranian ATC!
For the record, you guys should hear some of the things I've heard Marines say to fellow Air Force guys. Some of it's pretty damned funny no matter what uniform you wear. Don't worry guys; I'm not suiting up to go beat up liberals or anything. Just enjoying a witty comeback that may or may not have even occurred.
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02-23-2009, 07:43 PM
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02-23-2009, 08:02 PM
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Military people in this line of work, where life and death is all around you, sort of develop a 'gallows humor' attitude. Weird and sick jokes abound and it helps to deal with the tension.
The "Hotline" between the Pentagon and the Kremlin used to be a Tele-type machine and it was tested every hour; one hour by us and the alternate hour by them. The insults and dirty jokes used to test the system helped to break up the tension as both sides tried to outdo the other. When information was picked up about a death in a family the other side would send a message of condolence. I would bet that after awhile the US piliots and the Iranian ATC's get to know each others voice. In this case it looks to me like both sides had to do what they had to do with the notification stuff, but neither wanted to get somebody killed just because the pilot might have been taking a little shortcut.
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02-23-2009, 08:16 PM
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02-23-2009, 08:41 PM
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