Lt. James Cater

Nile-Those Whom The Gods Detest

Obituary-Slowly We Rot

For me, it's business as usual. When you work in a Hotel/Casino, the only difference between days is how busy you were and how fast you had to work to keep up with your assigned jobs and quotas. Back in tommorrow and put up with the holiday hordes for the next few days.

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12497-clipboard-b10ajpg/ Details to follow! Nov/62 Didn't think it was much of a mission but someone was impressed. Went out with the CO again against a distant target. The ere MIGs in the area when we began our attacks but i figured that an easy drop and away we go. what actually happened is the i had it nice but the Major for some reason, didn't drop his bombs. Knowing the trouble we were in, i quickly ordered him to hit a radar that was on the base as i went fast and low to drag the enemy away and to allow me space to turn back. Well, it worked out fine. The Major got the radar and i came back in and strafed a 100mm gun just on the perfect heading to get us out of there. The Migs tried but couldn't get us. http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12523-clipboard-b10jpg/

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12495-clipboard-b9jpg/ Another successful mission with Dramesi. This time though, i almost screwd the pooch. coming off the target we were chased by a pair of MIG-19s. no problem there as we had the speed advantage and even we we zoomed to 20,000 we were still fine as i anticipated them burning a lot of fuel having to climb after us. The hairy part began when they turned away. I Sent Dramesi home and began stalking the MIGs so i could get into range for a missle shot. Well, as it turns out i seriously underestimated their speed and my fuel consumption. By the time i decided to head for home, the fuel was getting pretty low so i climbed back up to 20,000 and went half throttle. By the time i got the Weser river things were really getting critical. As it is, i barely made it. http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12496-img00546jpg/ Talk about cutting it close!

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12486-clipboard-b8jpg/ 2NOV62 1LT Dramesi and i had a milk run. No Migs, meager ground fire. Stingray, sometimes you can do everything right and still come out wrong. At least your wingman wasn't KIA.

Forgot to post this yesterday. Happy Independence Day!!!

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12483-clipboard-b6jpg/ http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12483-clipboard-b6jpg/ 31OCT-1NOV/62 Boy, is the F-105 a great aircraft. Had a rather unusual mission on the 31st. Was tasked with taking out some AA guns...But no strike was heading to the area. Mabye intel knows something we don't? Anyways, LT Risner, Capt Leonard, and LT Priester and myself found ourselves flying a deep flight to north of Berlin. Throughout the ingress i was worried about MIG-21s. Anything else, we drop the nose and leave them behind. The 21 has the speed and missles to ruin our day though and they were our primary threat. As we found out later. A flight of 21s actually took off from a base and crossed our line of flight about 10 miles ahead of us at low level! It seems no one knew we were there! As we closed to the target we knew MIGs were in the area so it was simple, two passes and get the hell out of there. And that's exactly how it played out. They were Mig-17s, and they were really determined to get us. They kept on the chase but finally gave up after we zoomed to 20,000ft. Guess they were low on fuel and couldn't spare any for the climb. We then cruised home at half throttle. Novermber 1st, me and LT Cameron took a trip. It was strickly routine as even if there were Mig-17s in the target area, we came in and got out too fast for them to trouble us.

I've flown with it for a long time but can't tolerate it anymore. I know that the solution has been here more than a few times but after some searches i can't find it. The info on the lower left is fine. I just want to get rid of the annoying upper right screen. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks Wrench, that is exactly what i was looking for!.

Time to add my 2 bits worth. I don't have the SLIGHTEST ounce of sympathy towards illegals. Not one. Remember the topic i started some time ago about moving to England? Well, i'm still want to go but had to push it back a bit. Will i jump on a plane, get there and say, "Yo UK! I'm here?". Hell no, i have to go to the Counsulate in Los Angeles and do what i gotta to visa up. What ALL illegals need to do this...Go back to where you came from, do the paperwork, wait, come back. Now a whole lot of people think that is rather impossible. Think i care? If my ass wants to move to another country and I have to go through the procedure, they can too. Think i'm being a bit harsh? I work with immigrants. Im my shift there are exactly four of us out of about 80 that were born here. ALL of them visaed up and came. Why should others get to cut the line? Their reactions as a whole are enlightening. Do you know that all the Africans i know waited about 5 years to get in? The Cubans have varying times, but i've heard of waits of between 4 and 7 years. The Mexicans and Salvadorans were about 2 and 4 years respectively. Man, are some of these people pissed the hell off at these illegals demanding an amnesty. You would dig talking to them as you'll hear all kind of obscenities you've never even imagined. Don't like that wait? Too bad! One of my Uncles had a hell of a time. He managed to get his wife and kids out but he had a bit of a delay. Know how these simps always talk of "breaking up the family"? Well, he finally got reunited with his family 10 YEARS LATER. Thats right, a whole damn decade. Needless to say, i couldn't care a wit about the hassles others will encounter. "What about kids who don't know the language or culture"? Oh hell, another one of my Uncles got here in the early 60s and was thrown right into high school without knowing a lick of english.Yep, no bilingual educations in those days. Especially in the Bronx, which was where the family was at. Want to learn fast? Deep immersion is the way to go. BTW, he ended up joining the USMC. Vietnam, Parris Island Drill Instructer, OCS at Quantico, etc, etc. As for the "Vital" jobs these people do, let me tell you something. I feel for the young these days because lots of decent paying entry level jobs are gone. Anyone remember breaking into something like construction? Unless it's union, forget about it in large parts of the country because some illegal already got the job. Ain't no way the contracter is going to hire you. Why should he? He already got cheaper labor AND most likely doesn't have to worry about insurance. Man, i can riff ALL day about this subject. As a matter of fact, i got a WHOLE lot more to say but i'm going to pause for a bit.

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12410-clipboard-4bjpg/ http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12411-clipboard-5bjpg/ 29-30/OCT/62 For the forth mission i went out with the CO, Col James Kasler. The ingress was rather routine. Once at the target a comedy of errors began. Knowing that there were Migs in the area. I figured that it would be a straightforward task. Come in, divebomb, use the speed built up in the dive to leave any Mig in the dust. what actually happened was that Kasler went in to his dive and i followed. As i heard him call "bombs away" i thumbed the switch and was suprised that one of the Sidewinders i was carrying launched, then i fiddled around and the 20mm started firing. The ground was coming up fast so i pulled the nose up and used the speed brakes to keep from killing myself. Seeing as the Colonel nailed the target i got rid of the bombs and we got out of there as fast as we could. Lucky for us, that other flights were getting into the area and the Migs just didn't have what it takes to get us. On OCT 30th it was nice! Instead of the usual MK117s LT Cameron and i were loaded with 10 low drag 500 pounders. Combined with the centerline tank and an altitude of 15,000 ft, we were making for a pretty difficult intercept in case Ivan wanted to get us as we were moving at a nice clip. We got plenty of warning of MIG activity as other flights inbound north of us ran into trouble and GC gave us lots of info. It didn't do the Russkies any good as we blasted the target and headed out of there. We had lots of fuel so at full burner, the chances of anyone catching us from behind until we got well clear of the target area was nil. Finally we climbed back to 15,000 and turned for home. There was a lot of contacts on the radar including one that was right at our 12. Inquiring with GC, we got the word that they were bogies at 12 low, 25 miles out. Boy, did i get excited and so the stalk began. About 15 miles i dropped the nose and built up a head of steam as we got the info that our target was just ahead. Finally i spotted them, a flight of MIG-17s. Choosing #4 as a target i came in, squeezed a short burst, corrected aim and gunned him down just as he was beginning to break right. We zoomed by them so fast they didn't have a chance at a shot, then back to altitude we went. In the climb i got mad at myself for not ordering LT Cameron in on the attack. I'm positive that he would have bagged a Mig also since that were fish in a barrel. All in all, it was a nice mission!

It's really annoying when you are the one doing anything in a fight and the AI doesn't have that problem.

Thanks Stingray! Cater was so missed by everyone at Mektek years ago that Carter actually became my callsign! Weasel work in these sims is TOUGH! Hope you have success at it. I myself have never actually done dedicated WW work. In F-4s and A-7s i would have my wingman go after the target while i would be up high and back loaded with ARMs to shut down SAM. It worked more often then not. Anyways, got two more missions in and will write them up tommorrow after work. PS-Slartibartfast, many thanks and i hope you make it through your campaign also!

http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12404-clipboard-1bjpg/ http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12405-clipboard-2bjpg/ http://forum.combatace.com/gallery/image/12406-clipboard-3bjpg/ 26-28OCT/62 Well, got the call and went to work. On our first mission things were going fine until some Migs showed up. Seeing as we were in quite a predicament, i did the only thing that was possible at the moment. Told everyone to run for it. Capt Kittinger and 2LT Risner were right behind me but my wingman, 2LT Cameron, had a pair of MIG-17s hard on him and he had a devil of a time before he was able to outrun them. He got hit though, a 37mm round did a number on his aircraft. One thing for sure, Ivan is really agressive and will chase you for a long way before giving up. The second mission i also took 2LT Cameron with me. It was a textbook example on how to use the strengths of the Thud to our advantage. We flew in at 18,000ft and as we closed in on the target, we began a shallow dive to build up speed. About 15 miles from our drop in point, a pair of Mig-17s tried climbing up from 10 O-Clock low but we had a superior position due to our speed and so blew by them. We drop on the target, turned for home and went full burner. The 17s didn't stand a chance at getting us. The third was a doozy, Capt Kittinger and i were doing fine at 18,000ft until a pair of MIG-21s engaged us climbing from 9 low and converting on our 6. We jettisoned our tanks and bombs and evaded as best we could. At some point i began to act as bait and it worked so i ordered Kittinger home. Thank God those commie missles aren't that good and that 21s are point interceptors because after about 5 minutes of low level evasions, they disengaged. by now i was thinking of going home myself but decided against it. So back up to altitude, half throttle to conserve fuel, and back to the mission. 80 miles later and i had decided on on a plan. I would go in in a fast dive and strafe the target. Then i would turn a few miles out and strafe some more fuel tanks as i blew by oover the field and head home. And that's what i did except that enemy planes were engaging the flak suppression flight (a pair of Huns). On the second pass, i flew right under a smoking Hun and and whipped the plane back to see if i can help. Well, i saw a Flashlight behind him and closed in fast. Not fast enough though, the F-100 was going down in flames. The Red was still there though and so i closed in. He must have saw me and tried to break right but i had him square in my sights. A short burst and it was all over. I then proceeded to head out low until it was safe enough to climb to altitude and head home. Only glitch was that i accidently hit ESC whan i was about 30 miles from base. Had about a ton of fuel left so no worries there.