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This is an unfair comparison. It's funny that the Airforce probably loves the AC 130 more then the A-10 Warthog and I bet you both have saved hundreds of lives our allies and our man on the ground while the F-35, if it ever flies correctly, is going to cost a lives of many pilots and people on the ground if it ends up replacing the A-10 Warthog.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Great photo. I've had a long love affair with this aircraft even though never flown in it.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - While in Kuwait on the way to Qatar for a 3 day pass, I took a picture of an AC-130 being towed right by me 50 meters away. I was happy to see this. The reinforced concrete hangars were damaged from the first gulf war and some aircraft, I can't remember, were housed in them. I may have a digital copy but I do have prints somewhere. I did find a pictures B-1B, of F and EF-111 at Mountain Home I took with my ancient cell phone back in 2003.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Great photo gallery. I flew FB-111s and B-1s so seeing pictures of them is great. Flew FBs in and out of Mt Home many times but never went anywhere with the BONE. Heck, they were grounded during the first gulf war.
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I'm glad you liked my pictures. It was a lucky guess that you were at Mountain Home as well. I just wanted to check it out since I was over at Boise because I joined the Idaho National Guard. We did two weeks of training and then we had a week off before we were mobilized on the 4th of July 2004. We then spent three and a half months first in White Sands, then Fort Bliss and then finally at Fort Polk Louisiana before being kept at Alexandria at the old Air Force Base where they gave us two weeks off because they weren't ready to ship this out and I went back home to California. We then flew out to Kuwait the day after Thanksgiving and they sent us to Kuwait or we stayed there until the middle of December. I think I got to kirkuk, Iraq in or around the 25th of December and then the 26 is when they had that tsunami from the earthquake. I remember seeing that on the TV screens inside the dining facilities.
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you sharing CW5 Jack Cardwell
Background: The M102 towed 105mm howitzer has been around since 1964, when it was acquired by the Army for airborne and light infantry units, replacing the World War II-era M101 howitzer.
The M102 has a top range of roughly 9 1/3 miles and can fire ten rounds per minute in a rapid-fire mode before settling down to a tamer three rounds per minute.

Of course back blast is significant for a 105mm howitzer on an aircraft platform. The most efficient remedy would ensure that the "door" opposite the M102 would be opened wider so that the back blast would go out the port or starboard side respectively of the AC-130.
The AC-130 is a robust platform which can take fire and deliver direct and indirect fire.'

I am very thankful that my old friend and USMA classmate Tony Thomas commands SOCOM.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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We've certainly come a long way since the AC-47 Spooky!
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