Iraqi Mig Buried in the Desert....

[plan_D]

I bet you did. I think it is ridiculous that Iraq believed they could fend off modern military with equipment no more advanced than that of World War 2. It must be that unhealthy infatuation with Allah.

I have to ask; did you have the joy of ending any Scud sites or, at least, laser pin-pointing them for the flyboys?

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea we took some out... Wasnt very hard with just a few guys operating them... The problem was finding them...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Didn't they move them around quite a bit like every few hours to keep them from being found?

 

[lesofprimus]

Once they learned that they were being systematically blotted from the desert, yes they started moving them around... What we ended up doing was tracking them via satillite, and when theyd stop and redeploy, thats when we'd hit em...

A 25 minute helo ride, insert, 5 minutes to objective, 5 minutes to clear objective and blow SCUD inplace... Was rather cut and dry....

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Very successful also.

 

[plan_D]

Being told to do that would have been quite easy for you then?

 

[lesofprimus]

Dont get me wrong, it wasnt easy, but by this time, we had enough experience under our belts to make it seem so...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well good job!

 

[lesofprimus]

Well thank you...

I could tell some stories... I remember, this one time in band camp....

 

[evangilder]

Must have been interesting. You would think they would have gotten wise and tried to set up an ambush so that they could keep them safer. But then again, I guess they didn;t have the resources to protect them all. Good job though, Les!

 

[Nonskimmer]

Yes sir. Well done.
Now, what was this about band camp?

 

[lesofprimus]

(movie quote from American Pie...)

 

[Nonskimmer]

Yeah, I know. Another bad attempt at humour from me. See, this is why I use smilies so much. It helps get my meaning across.

 

[dinos7]

thats one of the best pics of iraqi migs that are buried that ive ever saw.

 

[lesofprimus]

Youve seen other buried Iraqi Migs???

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I dont think they found too many, but I am sure they are out there. Atleast the ones that are not in Iran.

 

[plan_D]

Yeah, good job on those Scuds, les. The Special Forces sure showed the Coalition commander up (what was his name? Schwarz something, or something) he said at the start of Desert Storm that Special Forces would have no place in modern warfare...how wrong he was.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

They play one of the most important parts today.

 

[plan_D]

Yeah, I heard he was directing that comment at the SAS. And then he personally shook the hand of a lot of SAS lads after the Gulf. At least he's gutsy enough to admit he was wrong.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

A good man will always admit that hes wrong.