Comments on: Picture Quiz: Airfighters

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:49:39 +0000

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

By: mike.

mike. — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:45 +0000

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?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:34:06 +0000

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.

By: Eric Michael

Eric Michael — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:23:20 +0000

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

By: Speaker

Speaker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:59:28 +0000

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.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:28:58 +0000

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.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:37:11 +0000

Wrong rank insignia.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:28:36 +0000

Obviously he lied about who he was on the comm.

By: Drafterman

Drafterman — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:22:56 +0000

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

By: FlowerPower

FlowerPower — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:48:39 +0000

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