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2012-09-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Glinesh Craling7938 2012-09-26 03:08|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Was at (then) SAC HQ when this first "almost happened." Very interesting time. The phrase "Gritty and Ready Determination" seems to stick in my mind....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2012-09-26 11:07|| 2012-09-26 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I get this message when I click on the story:

"XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=286121
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Posted by JohnQC 2012-09-26 13:52|| 2012-09-26 13:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Great link, great story.

Posted by Perfesser 2012-09-26 14:07|| 2012-09-26 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Fellow Rantburgers,
There are 2 things I've heard that are not mentioned in this article:
1) The Soviets had fighter units already in Egypt.
2) There was a dog fight between Soviet and USN fighters with loses on both sides before the two fleets decided to pull back.

Do any any Rantburgers know anything about this?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2012-09-26 14:26|| 2012-09-26 14:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Link works now. President Nixon hung tough in support of Israel unlike what is going on today.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-09-26 14:49|| 2012-09-26 14:49|| Front Page Top

#6 We were fighting for Nickel Grass and all that was right.

Posted by Shipman 2012-09-26 16:27|| 2012-09-26 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 See also RENSE > [Daily Mail] SOVIET SUB COMMANDER WHO SINGE-HANDEDLY AVERTED WW3 AT HEIGHT OF CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS.

* "Diverted 50 B-52 Bombers from Guam" > Yuup, I remember as a kid asking one of my Uncles whom was in the USAF at the time where did all the Bombers go - VIETNAM WAS THAT A'WAYS, BUT HOW COME MANY BOMBERS [loaded] WERE FLYING THE OTHER WAY!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-09-26 20:10|| 2012-09-26 20:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Frozen Al: Never heard that before, but I'm a youngin' compared to most of you. I'll have to look that up.

Posted by Charles 2012-09-26 21:15|| 2012-09-26 21:15|| Front Page Top

#9 ALL I know is that I was a reactor Operator on USS Will Rogers and the ship had major hull patches still missing and we had refuelled the reactor and hadn't done initial criticality testing yet. Then the word came down that IF the balloon went up we'd be patched up, underway on nuclear power and armed to the teeth with Mark 14s (WW2 steam torpedoes) within 24 hours.
Oh, joy!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2012-09-26 22:24|| 2012-09-26 22:24|| Front Page Top

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