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12 Responses to “ Picture Quiz: Airfighters ”

1. GruntDoc
   March 11th, 2010 at 12:38 am
   

   ….battlefield promotion…?

   (Those O-3 bars mean Captain in the Army, not the Oak Leaf of a Major).

2. Laura
   March 11th, 2010 at 2:39 am
   

   I figure the “H” stands for “hologram.”

3. FlowerPower
   March 11th, 2010 at 7:48 am
   

   He must have picked up the wrong helmet. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

4. Drafterman
   March 11th, 2010 at 8:22 am
   

   Maybe they’re on a first name basis and “Major” is his first name.

5. fluffy
   March 11th, 2010 at 10:28 am
   

   Obviously he lied about who he was on the comm.

6. Andreas
   March 11th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
   

   Wrong rank insignia.

7. Sean
   March 12th, 2010 at 1:28 am
   

   Insignia aside, was the term ‘close air support’ in use by the US yet? The concept itself was brand new, and I can’t seem to find any use of the term pre-Korea.

8. Speaker
   March 12th, 2010 at 8:59 am
   

   I don’t believe it was; the doctrines for CAS were really just developed during the march across France and Germany. We didn’t really have any on D-Day.

9. Eric Michael
   March 12th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
   

   Maybe the officer’s promotion has been approved by command and the RTO just ruined the surprise?

   EM

10. Harvey
    March 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
    

    Never question Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s command structure. Just because the officer may be a Captain, that does not mean that he can’t outrank a Major.

11. mike.
    March 17th, 2010 at 11:16 am
    

    Obviously picked up the wrong helmet. I mean, look at it. Assuming it’s not levitating or balancing on a complex system of cables and pulleys, can you picture the shape of the guy’s head underneath that thing?

12. Gavin
    March 19th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
    

    He has half a navy’s worth of ship’s guns to call in and he’s asking for a damn airplane?

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