Lt. James Cater

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.

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

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?

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.

Somehow i got a feeling that they'll do no more than 4 years tops? If they plead out the sentence will be a joke if they have no notable priors.

Ok, I checked this thread quickly this morning and thought about it during work. First off i have to change my view on everyone going to where they came from. Frankly, it's impossible considering some places are basically hellholes that would decimate visa seekers. I would advise going to some other country and doing the paperwork from there. Think it's unreasonable? One of my Aunts was amongst the people who climbed the fence of the Peruvian embassy in Havana and asked for asylum. This led directly to the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. She spent 3 years in Lima, Peru before coming to the US. "But now we have a complicated process of visas and consulates that the everyday peasant who wants to come to America can't understand or afford. So they just come." You wouldn't believe the chuckles i got out of that one. ETR, what contact do you have with the Latino community as a whole? Have you ever lived, worked with or been around Illegals for an extended period? The everyday peasant? That is one of the funniest things i've read in a very long time. The ones i worked with a few years ago would shrug their shoulders if you mentioned a visa. "Why should i do that when i can just go when i please?" That's an actual quote from a Mexican lady i worked with. Complicated? How complicated can it be when some of the people i work with now are aren't very literate? A few i consider dumb as a post but they went through the paperwork just like the others. The cost is nothing compared to certain other significant events in one's life. Want an example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1era You can go ahead and compare that to the cost of getting a visa. Now i give Latino examples all the time because that is the largest part of the problem. It's a bother when views are given without a clue as to the cultural involvement in the issue.