Writing assignment #3 draft 2
My mind is racing, my hands shaking on the controls. This is my first time in a cockpit and I am scared as hell. I take several deep breaths before glancing at my HUD to check my instruments.
I scan the sky for any threats. Suddenly my GIB yells “Bogey! 12 o’clock!” I instantly send out an IFF.
“Confirmed Bandit!” I yell back.
They are right beside us in and instant heading to cut us off. I try to start leading him, only to find him right in front of us again. “That’s it” I murmur to myself arming a HVM. He is in my sights, dodging back and forth. I check my RCS to make sure he is in range and fire.
“To early!” my GIB yells as the bandit releases chaff. My HVM goes haywire and streaks toward the ground. We fly through the cloud of Chaff only to find him BYR already.
I yell and perform some percussive maintenance on my HUD.I know my GIB probably thinks I am 404 by now. But my rage at the bandit has not yet faded. This whole mission was probably CRM. We pull up to a parking lot and stop. My GIB gets out and checks of f something on his clipboard.
“Well this was a good start” he says “but we still need to work on your road rage.” He gets in on the driver side and we drive back to the school.
CRM - Career Restricting Move - Used among officers to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing core values or discussing Delta's pay scale while your commander is within earshot is serious CRM
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking the boss . . . he's 404, man."
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of a $200,000 inertial navigation unit to get it to work again.
Bandit: Confirmed enemy aircraft. Bogey: Unidentified aircraft.
BVR: Beyond Visual Range.
Chaff: Strips of metal film released to confuse and reflet signals from rader-guided weapons.
GIB: Guy in Back.
Slang term for WSO, RIO, and B/N
HUD: Heads-Up Display. Glass mounted at the front of the cockpit. The pilot looks forward through the glass, and important combat and flight information is reflected onto the HUD and superimposed over his view of the outside world.
IFF: Identification Friend or Foe. A coded message sent to a target's IFF transponder.
HVM: High-Velocity Missile.
I scan the sky for any threats. Suddenly my GIB yells “Bogey! 12 o’clock!” I instantly send out an IFF.
“Confirmed Bandit!” I yell back.
They are right beside us in and instant heading to cut us off. I try to start leading him, only to find him right in front of us again. “That’s it” I murmur to myself arming a HVM. He is in my sights, dodging back and forth. I check my RCS to make sure he is in range and fire.
“To early!” my GIB yells as the bandit releases chaff. My HVM goes haywire and streaks toward the ground. We fly through the cloud of Chaff only to find him BYR already.
I yell and perform some percussive maintenance on my HUD.I know my GIB probably thinks I am 404 by now. But my rage at the bandit has not yet faded. This whole mission was probably CRM. We pull up to a parking lot and stop. My GIB gets out and checks of f something on his clipboard.
“Well this was a good start” he says “but we still need to work on your road rage.” He gets in on the driver side and we drive back to the school.
CRM - Career Restricting Move - Used among officers to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing core values or discussing Delta's pay scale while your commander is within earshot is serious CRM
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking the boss . . . he's 404, man."
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of a $200,000 inertial navigation unit to get it to work again.
Bandit: Confirmed enemy aircraft. Bogey: Unidentified aircraft.
BVR: Beyond Visual Range.
Chaff: Strips of metal film released to confuse and reflet signals from rader-guided weapons.
GIB: Guy in Back.
Slang term for WSO, RIO, and B/N
HUD: Heads-Up Display. Glass mounted at the front of the cockpit. The pilot looks forward through the glass, and important combat and flight information is reflected onto the HUD and superimposed over his view of the outside world.
IFF: Identification Friend or Foe. A coded message sent to a target's IFF transponder.
HVM: High-Velocity Missile.
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