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To: goldsnow who wrote (5721)	4/28/1999 3:27:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

goldsnow, It is going to be interesting in Congress. The best thing we could do for the troops would be to pull em out of the Balkans, throw a big parade for em, give em a hugh pay bonus, and thank them for doing the best they could under the circumstances. However, what Bubba is now trying to do is make the NATO pilots work 'round the clock. He is sending over a bunch of tankers so that they can pull even longer shifts in the air. They are already suffering from fatigue of flying endless high stress missions. In fact, that is one of the contributing factors in how Scott O'Grady got shot down. It was a long flight, and toward the end all of a sudden, they were locked on and 2 SAM-6 missiles came up threw the clouds. The first one went right between the 2 F-16s. The second one went right through O'Grady's jet. He said it felt like his plane was "hit by a truck with a missile on it". Now we got our fearless Commander in Chief telling our pilots to spend even more time in the air looking for the enemy (which strangly enough, never seem to just appear and wait around to be fired upon). You can bet we will see more jets go down. I bet that Clinton will fight to the last dead American pilot. -John