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After DS, I spent some time at a Kuwaiti base with our F-16's and a unit of A-10's from DM. I remember four things in particular about that trip...the A-10's couldn't fly during most of the daylight hours, because it was so hot they couldn't take off loaded; I remember one of the guys sliding in to home during a softball game and uncovering a UXO (that was our last softball game); the Kuwaiti camel spiders (much larger and more active than the Iraqi ones I saw) and noticing that CBU's leave a really distinctive eye with eyebrow mark when they detonate on a taxiway.
And Rondog, the Boys from Syracuse fly Predators now. They traded in their F-16's about three years ago. A friend of mine was in that unit. I have several friends who used to be in F-16 units, before F-16 units started to become rare.
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Before they shutdown Chanute AF Base, they had an air show every year and I will never forget the first time I heard one of those and was able to watch it take off. That is one of the coolest damn planes I have ever seen.
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Thanks for posting the videos. A-10s are one of my most favorite planes.
