#fimbs

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i think a lot of my worldbuilding is taking a current technology, subtracting 20-40 years from it, and putting it in space. "what if this was way shittier but did things way more advanced than we used it for"? "what if we didn't know how this worked?"

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Read through William Smallwood’s “Strike Eagle: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War.” It was a very interesting but bleak read.

Despite broad operational successes, the strike Eagle pilots and crews went in with very few aircraft considered combat ready. The jets were only certified to use dumb bombs, and most did not have targeting pods. They felt they were not adequately trained for the threat, and sudden changes to flight plans were common. Each pilot interviewed recounts the terror of flying into some of the world’s densest AAA (at the time), with RWR equipment that didn’t effectively pick up and alert to all threats. They also became very jaded with an inadequate combat search and rescue organization that they had no control over, as well as the political situation around the ceasefire.

I apologize if that sounds dire - it is. But those crews also did their mission knowing the risk. I thought it was a very interesting read and gives a perspective that is not often discussed among the broad success that was the coalition air campaign. I’ll be reading Smallwood’s A10 gulf war book in the future.

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taken @ pueblo weisbrod, Mig-17 camo’ed for Vietnam

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Going through pre-pandemic stuff on my camera and editing it .

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going through pre-pandemic travel photos to edit them and UGH I wish I wasn’t so shy with street photography. A lot of shots would have worked if I had just stepped up and taken the photo instead of trying to be a wallflower

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We left the heated blanket on and my son went full orb mode

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even if titties arent back its time to nag my friends to get on this web blog site

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I didn’t want to do the work of clearing everything out on my old account, so I’m making a new one. Looking to spend some time outside of twitter, this is more comfortable to ramble on and obsess over niche things