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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Trust me, had the Warthog pilot been really strafing you, you would not be here to type this. They are very deadly at their job.
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Trust ME, I know...
They blew our building apart several times a day. The A-10s would minigun us, while the F-16s would hammer us from miles away with guided missiles. I was told that if we had a laser detector mounted on the roof, it would never turn off during daylight hours.
The A-10s would carve up the canyons at the base of the mountain. this guy must have seen me coming down one afternoon, and he timed it perfectly to cross my path right as I cleared a berm. I could tell how many of his teeth had fillings...
Obviously I didn't mean that he really strafed me with live fire.
Hell, we had a Blackhawk doing high altitude training once circle the mountaintop site (2 loops around the site, quickly killing all of us standing around watching) before doing touch and goes at 9200 feet. Having seen one of those come over the edge of the mountain in full attack pose from 200 feet away...you understand why they are still the baddest of the bad out there.