frisco-kid
Tue December 20, 2005 10:50pm
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101_0124
"You buy sandwich, lady?"
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 12:59am
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100_0042_2
Saigon is a beautiful city with wide, tree lined boulevards, high rise buildings, and lots of parks. A surprisingly clean city. A lot different from when I saw it in Fall '66. Then it was choked with refugees from the countryside fleeing the war; many of them living on the streets. The city had all of the sanitation problems, begging, hustling, crime, disease, and despare that comes with over-crowding in a city in a war zone. It was great to see it in peace time. I could understand how it was once called "The Paris of the Orient."
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 1:06am
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100_0041_2
Coming and going, we stayed at the Duxton Hotel on busy Nguyen Hue Street. A classy, five-star hotel.
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 10:45pm
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100_0021_2
After leaving the fish market we were taken to a Buddhist monastary in the nearby hills.
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frisco-kid
Wed December 21, 2005 11:37pm
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100_0002_2
After a 13hr. flight on Asiana Airlines we arrive at the Seoul, Korea Airport. We have a 13hr. lay-over. We planned that so we could look around Korea a little bit. Always looking for adventure  .
Before we arrived, another passenger told us that the airline would comp us a room. When we landed we checked it out, and it was a true story; room, transportation to and from the airport, and a lunch. What a deal.
After processing us into Korea, they put us on a bus and take us to a hotel in Inchon, which is where the airport actually is. It's a small, but adequate room, and it's nice to have a place to relax after the long flight. It's still early, so we take a nap. LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN!
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Keith_Hixson
Tue September 12, 2006 8:41pm
Rating: 10
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Fire Look Out
The fire look out isn't used any longer. It's falling apart but still standing barely.
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Keith_Hixson
Thu December 7, 2006 1:26pm
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Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea Bushes grow up to 30 ft High. Thats Susan standing in from of a Bougainvillea bush.
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wijers
Thu February 22, 2007 11:47pm
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guiding soldiers in the A
Soldiers of the Dutch Army in the Ardennes.
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David
Wed October 1, 2008 6:13am
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Budstikken_gikk
WW2 German music
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David
Mon February 9, 2009 12:01pm
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David
Mon February 9, 2009 12:13pm
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Betty Lou's Buggy
Betty Lou's Buggy
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David
Mon February 9, 2009 12:16pm
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Bulging Betty
Bulging Betty
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David
Mon February 9, 2009 12:16pm
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Gunner Carvo
Sat October 17, 2009 9:10am
Rating: 10
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Carvo-Johnson Wedding
Kinda shaky, but I didn't fall over.
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David
Wed October 28, 2009 9:16am
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Wild Weasel
Wild Weasel is a nickname for an aircraft of the United States Air Force specially equipped with radar seeking missiles used to remove radars and SAM installations of enemy air defence systems. The techniques used with Wild Weasels in the Vietnam and the Yom Kippur War were later integrated into the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) a plan used by US air forces to establish immediate air control, prior to possible full scale conflict. Initially known by the operational code "IRON HAND" when first authorized on August 12, 1965, the term "Wild Weasel" derives from Project Wild Weasel, the USAF development program for a dedicated SAM-detection and suppression aircraft. Originally named "Project Ferret", denoting a predatory animal that goes into its prey's den to kill it (hence: "to ferret out"), the name was changed to differentiate it from the code-name "Ferret" that had been used during World War II for radar counter-measures bombers.
In brief, the task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source so that the Weasel or its teammates can precisely target it for destruction. A simple analogy is playing the game of "flashlight tag" in the dark; a flashlight is usually the only reliable means of identifying someone in order to "tag" (destroy) them, but the light immediately renders the bearer able to be identified and attacked as well. The result is a hectic game of cat-and-mouse in which the radar "flashlights" are rapidly cycled on and off in an attempt to identify and kill the target before the target is able to home in on the emitted radar "light" and destroy the site.
The technique (or a specific part) was also called an 'Iron Hand' mission, though technically the Iron Hand part refers only to a suppression attack that paves the way for the main strike.
The unofficial motto of the Wild Weasel crews is YGBSM: "You Gotta Be Shittin' Me". This appears prominently on the logo patch of some squadrons. As the story goes, this was the response of Jack Donovan, a former B-52 EWO (Electronic Warfare Officer):
This was the natural response of an educated man, a veteran EWO on B-52s and the like, upon learning that he was to fly back seat to a self-absorbed fighter pilot while acting as flypaper for enemy SAMs.
The "WW" tailcode of the 35th Fighter Wing derives from its Wild Weasel heritage.
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