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in roughly march of 1991 I was in Btrp, 1/2 acr deployed to the sandbox for Desert Storm, when I saw an insane low level flyby.
Our unit was setup in a square formation near the middle of the major highway leading from Basra to Bagdad (have picture if needed)
One day we start seeing a pair of jets flying around alot nearby.
Command checked and was told they were Kuwaiti (spelling?)
Afterabit, they flewby pretty close, we waved, they goofed around abit, then left...or so we thought.
Out platoons were setup alternating around the square, tank plt, bradley plt, tank plt, bradley plt for the four sides 250 meters between tanks, and roughly 175 or so between bradleys, and support and maint in the middle.
I was in the tank nearest our sister bradley plt, when we had one of the previously mentioned flyboys come ripping over us at (we guessed) 50 feet.
Ok that was pretty cool, if unnerving.....then his buddy came _through_ our formation. He was flying sideways, and I saw the very tip of his wing pass _behind_ the turret of the bradley 4th down from me. Bradley is roughly 9 feet high, so he was _really_ low. He wasen't exactly sitting still either.
That really rocked, was a major rush, only regret I have is not having a video camera. I did have a regular camera, but even If I had had it out, I'd have never gotten the pic, it was that fast.
I'll enclose the highway sign pic we were near during our blockade duty.
(photo to big, lemme see if i can resize it)
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