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| US Pilot: Pakistan Has Always Been Shooting at US Planes |
| 2011-05-18 |
| CALLER: Hi, Rush. I heard on several occasions you mentioned Tora Bora and we turned it to 6,000 degrees, and I was actually there for that. RUSH: You were there? I had been told -- I might get in trouble for this but I've been told -- that there were photos of Bin Laden on horseback at Tora Bora ten minutes prior to you turning the place 6,000 degrees. CALLER: I think they mixed up a couple of days. We were there a couple of days prior to that when they -- we were working with a (unintelligible) that, as a matter of fact, had mentioned he'd seen what they thought was Osama leading troops, and we were assigned to bomb 'em. We had a weapons malfunction that kept us from putting the weapons on the target. So I think that's the day that he escaped. It was a couple days later when they brought in the C-130 and dropped that fuel air explosive that I think that's what you were referring to -- RUSH: Yeah, that's right. CALLER: -- and we followed up. There was three of us -- I'm a B-52 pilot -- and we followed up with three of us droppin' Mark-82s, full loads of Mark 82s, so... RUSH: Wow. You fly the BUFF. CALLER: Yeah. I recently retired. I'm up at Edwards now as a test pilot but that was back in, I think, early December -- RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: -- and the reason I called was we used to have to fly up, from where we were stationed, in order to get there. As you know, Afghanistan is landlocked, and we'd have to fly flew Pakistan to get to Afghanistan. RUSH: At what altitude are you flying the BUFF? CALLER: Excuse me? Oh, well, we would operate in the lower forties and sometimes around up 45 or 55,000. RUSH: Do they have anything that can hit you at that altitude? CALLER: Certainly not the Afghanis. There was all sorts of talk about them climbing up those big mounts and taking potshots at us with shoulder launched. We didn't believe that. The big reason I called is early on as we started to prosecute the war -- we were one of the first units to respond after 9/11, and shortly after that when we started the war -- we'd drive up what they called the "driveway" through Pakistan, and it was an agreed route that the host country would have us fly up through, and it took us over a couple of the cities in south Pakistan. Well, those bastards would bang away at us with AAA's. We'd fly over the cities and they'd -- |
| Posted by:Solomon Snavimp6151 |
| #1 Yeeeep, occurred times even during the 1980's anti-Soviet war. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-18 19:41 |