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British East India Company's official flag was the Skull & Crossbones


Republic of Singapore air force unit activates

by Master Sgt. Brian S. Orban
366th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office
5/20/2009

MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho -- After eight months of planning and preparation, the Republic of Singapore air force passed a significant milestone when a new fighter training squadron activated here during a ceremony May 18.

During the event, the Air Force reactivated the 428th Fighter Squadron to serve as the republic of Singapore's flying training unit at Mountain Home. Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Keith Gibson assumed command of the 428th FS, also known as the Buccaneers.

The joint U.S. and Singapore organization is identical to other RSAF training units based in the United States.

"It's been a very hectic and stressful eight months but very rewarding at the same time," Colonel Gibson said in his first address as the squadron's commander. "To be able to go from literally nothing at Mountain Home to what you see today and ready to begin flying operations starting on the first of June is simply amazing."

As part of a long-standing international partnership, the 428th FS will fly 10 Singapore F-15SG aircraft maintained and flown by 180 RSAF active duty members and an additional 130 support personnel. The first four of these jets arrived here May 7 with the others scheduled to arrive in coming months.

"It has not been an easy road," said Col. James McGovern, 366th Operations Group commander. "The thousands of independent miracles that had to occur simultaneously to make this squadron ready for today are beyond measure. But the impossible was made possible thanks to a combined team ... all working seamlessly together to produce this brilliant aircraft and set the ground work for flying training operations [at Mountain Home]."

The F-15SG is an advanced version of the F-15E Strike Eagle currently flown by two squadrons at Mountain Home. At a casual glance, the F-15SG is indistinguishable from a Strike Eagle.

Mountain Home was selected to house the training squadron following an Air Force study that began in 2005 to determine the most suitable location for the RSAF unit. Mountain Home was deemed the ideal location for this training unit because of the base's extensive range complex, ideal year-round flying conditions, existing facilities and highly trained people.

A similar flight training program began at Luke AFB, Ariz., in 1990 and at Cannon AFB, N.M., from 1998 to 2005 as part of a continuing long-term relationship between Singapore and the United States. This partnership is expected to remain at Mountain Home for the next 25 years.

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www.mountainhome.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123149991

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"I was working on psyops commander's computer and next to his PC was a top secret document that was open, his neglect was my ally, I was sitting there working on his computer and was waiting for some patches to download and I look over and I'm reading the document, and it's the off order for the exercise that they are participating in.

"So I'm reading this document and it's giving proposed situations for scenarios for this wargame the scenarios include a hijacked plane, most of them were hijacked planes, I saw one that was like a car bomb trying to blow up something, but one of them was a hijacked plane crashing into a nuclear power plant in California, the Sears Tower, the World Trade Center, The Pentagon obviously, the White House, our building was one of the targets as well.

"If you want to crash planes into a building, and you've got the aerospace grid at your beckoning call, so you put a bunch of blips on it so no one knows which ones are real and which ones are fake... All you have to do is have someone in charge of the computer systems to put the blips on the screen and then you can do whatever you want."

Sgt Lauro Chavez, CENTCOM Sergeant Details Traitorous Stand Down Orders On 9/11
www.infowars.net/articles/September2006/260906Chavez.htm

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Originally posted by peacekeeper:
PIss off dickhead and go and get your psych evaluation.I tend to to lambast people who resort to petty insults, but on this occasion I'm going to break my own rule. You are the one mother on this site I would dearly love to kick the shit out of.

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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
-George W Bush, Gridiron Dinner, March 2001

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, no question about it."
—George Bush Jr

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Originally posted by piratenews:
British East India Company's official flag was the Skull & Crossbones

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Supposing for the moment that this is true (and coming from PN, you should NEVER assume that anything he posts is really true), what's the problem?

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Supposing for the moment that this is true (and coming from PN, you should NEVER assume that anything he posts is really true), what's the problem?

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Actually its no problem at all.

Here's the deal. They buy US made F-15 fighters as part of a strategic partnership to arm Southeast Asia, non-communist nations as a check against Chinese aggression. We agree to train their pilots in the use of these big fancy airplanes. Putting US "adivisors" in Southeast Asia makes them a target and since F-15 training is kinda sensitive and complicated, how about we let them use our fancy training base? Sure, they say. So they buy our fighters, who are trained at our bases, creating sympathy, mutual respect, and friendship between the services of our two nations. Lots of win-win here with an ally in an important strategic region.

Pissing off idiots like PN is the bonus.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.

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Originally posted by WASHnwear:
I think if American pilots were to start dressing in pirate gear like their British counterparts, it would do wonders for USAF morale and recruiting.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:



Besides, the F-15 is old news. It's all but obsolete at this point. It was a fantastic piece, it did its job(s) admirably, but time and progress have pretty much passed it by. What better use for it than selling them off to 2nd-tier or 3rd-tier air forces?



Mike

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