Originally Posted by
L'il J.Seinfeld
Yeah but how many of them counted for anything that were without the tankers? By that I mean outside of training. Even the guys in Balad are refueling on their sorties. I assumed your average sorie duration would be a lot higher due to the fact that I've flown with a lot of fighters who ended up flying longer sorties than their tankers, both in OIF and at Kadena.
True...true. I've done a couple out of Balad on alert or when the tanker crumped. Did a couple out of KKMC during Desert Storm, but by and large, if I was logging combat time, it was with a whole lot of AAR.
I still think the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life is a 7 tanker cell with 50 fighers rejoining for a pre-strike gorilla. Looked like battlestar Galactica.