Members of the Frank Luke Jr. family, Fighter Country Foundation, Luke Air Force Base and the community gathered April 7 for an unveiling of a battle flag from Murvaux, France.
Audio recordings taken during the US shoot down of a Chinese spy balloon may provide insight into how the military shot down an object over Lake Huron.
This is some BREAKING NEWS if ever there was any and I sure am glad we pay these guys the big bucks to do our thinking for us. We might have screwed up and gone with what our lying eyes told us....
On February 4th, 2023, the U.S. Air Force had an unusual mission, a task so atypical to modern warfare that it was almost beyond living memory, having last occurred at the tail end of WWII.[1] Now faced with the necessity of downing a balloon, Air Force officials turned to the unit with the most historical experience in this role, the Fightin' Eagles of the 27th Fighter Squadron. So when the F-22 Raptor pilot flying callsign Frank 01 announced, “Splash one,” and his wingman in Frank 02 followed up with, “The balloon is completely destroyed,” upon the 27th Fighter Squadron's successful completion of their mission to destroy a Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast, the moment was far from the first time that pilots from the Fightin’ Eagles had sent a balloon to its doom.[2] While the leadership of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base knew the history of the squadron they selected for this unique assignment, it is unlikely that they understood just how deep the unit's connections to “The Great War” actually ran.
The Chinese surveillance balloon that was floating over the United States was shot down over the weekend and we're learning the operation has ties to Arizona.
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