Blue Ghosts: December 2008

                 Just Forward It

      A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her.

Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.

'Oh my, I am so sorry,' the woman says as she pops her eye back in place.

'Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you,' she says.

They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theatre followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens.

After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to
her
place for a nightcap and stay for breakfast. They had a wonderful, wonderful time.

The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed. Everything had been SO incredible!

'You know,' he said, 'you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?'

'No,' she replies . . .

      Wait for it. .

      It's coming. .

      The suspense is killing you, isn't it?

      She says

'You just happened to catch my eye.'

(Oh, shut up, and just forward it!)

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Holidays

Just wanted to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy and Prosperious NEW YEAR.

Blue 31

Adam Mouton MSG USA Ret.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

NAM 08 Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/home#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-bk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=picasa.com

This link should provide captions for the photos.

Friday, December 19, 2008

I could not Confirm this with Snopes

According to an Air Force pilot in addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defence Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be transiting Iranian airspace.

This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.

I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai. It's too good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this...

Air Defense Radar: "Unknown aircraft at
(location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself".

Aircraft: "This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace".

Air Defense Radar: "You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft".

Aircraft: "This is a United States Air Force F-22 fighter, send'em up, I'll wait".

Air Defense Radar: ...(no response, ...total silence)...

Return to Vietnam

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Photos taken by James Sheridan, BlueGhost 6X, during his journey back to Saigon, Chu Lai and Ky Ha.

Here are photos of my Dec 08 trip to Saigon and F/8's AO while it operated out of Chu Lai. I stayed in Hoi An, an ancient city located at the juncture of the Son Tu Bon River and the S. China Sea. The Son Tu Bon River was the northern boundary of the Americal AO. Not much left of "our" presence but steel and concrete and memories. James Sheridan sirideain1@gmail.com

NAM 08

Here are photos of my Dec 08 trip to Saigon and F/8's AO while it operated out of Chu Lai. I stayed in Hoi An, an ancient city located at the juncture of the Son Tu Bon River and the S. China Sea. The Son Tu Bon River was the northern boundary of the Americal AO. Not much left of "our" presence but steel and concrete and memories.

James Sheridan
sirideain1@gmail.com

James Sheridan ~ Return to Vietnam - December 2008

Photos taken by James Sheridan, BlueGhost 6X, during his journey back to Saigon, Chu Lai and Ky Ha.

Here are photos of my Dec 08 trip to Saigon and F/8's AO while it operated out of Chu Lai. I stayed in Hoi An, an ancient city located at the juncture of the Son Tu Bon River and the S. China Sea. The Son Tu Bon River was the northern boundary of the Americal AO. Not much left of "our" presence but steel and concrete and memories. James Sheridan sirideain1@gmail.com

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Dusty Holm

http://www.ldnews.com/ci_11244212?source=most_emailed

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Fred Hersom 1967-68

Fred Hersom‏

From:

Sally Hersom
(fshersom@yahoo.com)

Sent:

Fri 12/05/08 1:28 PM

To:

cdvtex@hotmail.com

Ranger, I saw where you wanted me to contact you, we were brothers in arms. If you recieve this please get back to me. I have been trying to contact some of our people, now it seems like it is happening .. Thank you for the contact. Fred

Fred's photos

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

CarterDavisDFC.pdf

Attachment: CarterDFC.pdf
Attachment: Purple Heart Carter.pdf

C Model Gunship Crew Chiefs

Warren Newton. On January 9, 1968, Newton and entire crew were shot down and lost.

Photos submitted by Crew Chief Blair Noel, Carter Davis and Fred Hersom