By William L. Smallwood
Taking readers into the cockpit of the U.S. Air Force's F-15E, the pilot-author of Warthog: Flying the A-10 within the Gulf struggle recounts the all-too-human stories of warfare within the skies over Baghdad.
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We talked a lot about it," he said, "but, personally, I didn't think there was a chance we would go. At the time most of us thought Iran would be the country to create problems over there. " Capt. Randy Garrett, the plans officer for the 4th Wing, was in the group with Paul Burns when they were speculating on their own potential involvement. "I was pretty negative about the possibility of us going over there," said Garrett. ' That was real effective, right? Anyway, we were all about convinced that the only thing that might happen was for some airplanes to be sent over there as a show of force just as a bluff-but not to go into action against Iraq.
Thanks to this support I was able to track down and interview 106 of the crewmen who flew the 48 Strike Eagles that fought in the Gulf War. I started my research at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, where all Strike Eagle crews are trained. ) Capt. Joe Davis in the Public Affairs Office at Luke was very helpful. In addition, Lt. Col. Terry Branson, who was one of the first operational pilots to fly the F-15E, instructed me about flying the airplane as if it were a single-seater and I were about to go out and fly it.
It was prayer time-one of several during the day when practicing Muslims roll out little carpets and get down on their hands and knees to face Mecca and pray. The sounds coming from the loudspeakers were from a mullah, a teacher of the Koran, praying. Prayer was also on the minds of many of the crewmen that morning as they awoke and became fully aware of the gravity of their situation. Saddam Hussein had nine of his elite Republican Guards divisions poised on the Kuwaiti border with 1,200 tanks and 800 artillery pieces, ready at any moment, it appeared to intelligence analysts, to wheel southward toward the Saudi oil fields.