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Old 14th Jul 2014, 19:30
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I suspect they've all gone off to RIAT. Meanwhile, I was lucky enough to do an SF trip which was an exchange at Hurlbert Field with 8th SOS. Now these boys really are the business and were the chaps who last dropped the Daisy cutters (BLU-82) over Kuwait in GW1, and lost an aircraft in the process. It was a massive bomb, as they explained it, designed to clear an area of forest to provide a helipad. They found it most effective, dropped amongst troop formations, having a similar effect on anyone who was taller than 2 feet. A wiki link for anyone interested.

BLU-82 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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