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2004-01-18 Britain

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Posted by CrazyFool 2004-01-18 8:04:37 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Saw this yesterday on LGF. The United States has several million feet of imagery on sale, mostly KH-4 photography from the 1960's. There are literally TONS of stuff still classified, and that will probably remain classified for another 30 years or so before it's even considered for declassification.

The US Air Force had the largest contingent of military imagery analysts (my job) of the armed forces. We NEVER numbered more than about 2500, and for most of the years following the drawdown from Vietnam, the number stood at about 1600. With that crew, we looked at close to a half-million images every year. Not all of those were taken by the United States, but we supplied the majority of them.

My troops in England, average age of 23, average experience ~3 years, beat out two European teams with significantly more experience during competitions in 1987. Darned right I'm proud of them! Several are still in the military, and still doing the same job, at significantly higher rank.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-18 10:12:30 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-18 10:12:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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