Sierra Hotel Blog
On the night before Christmas my ship was at sea, A big flat-top "bird farm" from the land of the free.Cruising the ocean at "the tip of the spear",So everyone home could sleep sound with no fear.Flight ops had...
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Lovingly and most innocently written by 10 year old TJ, Ben and Daniel.
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On December 4, 1959, Ensign Albert Joe Hickman's F3H Demon lost power on approach to Miramar with 750 children at recess directly in his flight path. He could have ejected safely. Instead, he stayed with the aircraft and guided it clear of the schoolyard, sacrificing his life at age 21.
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July 4th, 1989, Colonel Nikolai Skuridin departed Bagicz airbase located near Kolobrzeg, Poland, on a MiG-23M, an aircraft simply known to the West as "The Flogger," a nuclear-capable variable-geometry single-engine Soviet 3rd generation Fighter. During takeoff for a routine training...
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June 26th, 1981; The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle APC is first utilized in a secret extraction operation inside Czechoslovakian borders. The crisis began to unfold when several American military personnel inadvertently crossed through the Czech border, and in a desperate...
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