It’s been more than half a century since any American soldier or Marine has been killed, or even wounded, by hostile aircraft, a period roughly coincident with the existence of the Air Force as a separate service. Even during the Korean War—the Air Force’s first engagement wearing new, blue uniforms—enemy air attack was primitive and rare. The main air battle was fought along the Yalu River, just as in Vietnam it was fought over Hanoi, and in Desert Storm, over Baghdad. Our guys on the ground had hard work to do, but when they looked up, they saw only friendly skies.Read the whole thing.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why we should wish to change this.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Military Quote of the Day
From General Merrill McPeak in a Wall Street Journal article decrying the premature end of the F-22 fighter/bomber program:
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The good general was the national co-chair for Obama.
Maybe he should have started worrying about the grunts on the ground back then.
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