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Originally Posted by Homer
Does the 3rd TFW still have it's F-4s? As I recall, they had received the most upgraded F-4Es with full PGM capability, TISEO, etc. just before Desert Storm and actually deployed some of them to Incirlik. Circa 91 they were operating E and G model F-4s for air superiority, strike, and wild weasel plus UH-1Ns for base and range support. I could see the F-4s getting replaced during modernization; F-16s could do the multi role tasking, but an F-15Es would preserve the heavy strike capability of the E models. Clark also had resident AFSOC and MAC supporting theater commitments and intra island lift in its role as the hub for USAF operations in the Philippines.
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I have 3rd TFW with F-16s, 2 squadrons of Cs and 1 with CJ Wild Weasels. They did SEAD for the Cam Ranh Bay raid. I do have the other units at Clark as well, plus some P-3s from Cubi Point.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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