User talk:Ewsraven
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[edit] AFSOC?
I noticed your contributions to various AFSOC related pages. By those edits, I assume you were involved in the MC-130s? — BQZip01 — talk 15:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- You are doing fine. The only thing I would watch is adding stuff to pages without citations. I know a lot of that stuff to be 100% true and I'm not going to challenge it. That said, Wikipedia rules state you must have a source for everything except common sense stuff ("water is wet", "the sky is blue", etc.) Anyone who wants can remove anything not cited, though usually they should add a {{cn}} template, wait 3 months, and then delete unless it violates other rules. Just watch out and don't try and force something that violates WP:NOR.
- Furthermore, I suggest reading WP:V, WP:MoS, and WP:IAR for more info on edits.
- If you want a laugh/insight as to me, read my user page by clicking my name. — BQZip01 — talk 06:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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- BQZip here (logging in at work causes the computer to crash). I'm at work on my lunch break and I figured I'd drop you a line. To be involved in Eagle Claw is very impressive. I've read a lot on the subject and talked with people who were involved. Were you involved in Credible Sport at all? That modification would have been one badass bird. Personally, I'd have loved to see the faces of the bad guys involved had the rescue (either one) been successful.
- Sir, the Americans are gone!
- What? How?
- You're not going to believe this, but...
- BTW, have you heard the nickname for the Combat Spear? I personally love it: the Combat Wombat.
- Anyways welcome to Wikipedia. Look forward to chatting with you in the future. — BQZip01 — talk 17:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- BQZip here (logging in at work causes the computer to crash). I'm at work on my lunch break and I figured I'd drop you a line. To be involved in Eagle Claw is very impressive. I've read a lot on the subject and talked with people who were involved. Were you involved in Credible Sport at all? That modification would have been one badass bird. Personally, I'd have loved to see the faces of the bad guys involved had the rescue (either one) been successful.
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- Wow. Lots of good information there. IMHO, it will happen someday in the next 50 years. Regimes that are oppressive tend to do so until their people turn on them or they are crushed from the outside. The only hope for those regimes to last is to control almost everything that their countrymen learn. If there is an outside influence of any kind, the truth will get through.
- IMHO, North Korea is a perfect example of a regime that can last, but will eventually fall apart internally if they don't do something rash with their military first. Iran is one that will eventually push the West/Israel too far (diplomatically, militarily, economically, etc) and there will be a war. China will continue to be a world power, but will not reach its full potential (they could easily become the next sole world superpower) until they move away from a communistic government and allow free speech.
- BTW, you can just reply here and I'll read it. Since I created your talk page (I was the first to post), it is automatically in my watchlist. — BQZip01 — talk 131.44.121.252 (talk) 20:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the tip, BQZip. Interesting, but from my first days at Hurlburt (BTW, I attended tech school at Keesler along with some Iranian officers also learning electronic warfare - ironic), we discussed the Soviet threat, and none of us could imagine that the evil empire would last in the face of information and goods that were surely being smuggled in and disseminated. We always figured the people would rise up in revolution from the inability of the repressive regime to deliver the kinds of goods that the west routinely enjoyed. I agree with your statement about outside influences. Score one for capitalism. I hope the need for freedom overcomes the cruel grip of Islamofascism in the mideast.
- Interesting bio on your user page. We share more than a common military heritage, I suspect our politics are also similar. I also share you're disdain for incorrect use of the language. : )
- I look forward to learning the wiki mark-up language.Ewsraven (talk) 22:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- IT'S "YOUR" GENIUS!!!
- ok, deep breaths...you can get through this <calming down now> <sigh>
- I was an Exec for a few years and my father was an O-6...I have little patience for people who can't handle the basics of the English language. Eye am knot saying its sew easy too ewes, but ewe should no and bee able two identify the write words in the language yore using two make it as simple as possible two read (spell chequers do knot catch everything!). — BQZip01 — talk 131.44.121.252 (talk) 22:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Ditto BQ and Amen. Got a good LOL out of that. I was always amazed at the inability of coworkers in high-tech military fields and the civilian (albeit government, as I worked for Treasury) IT world to be able to write grammatically correct English. People tend to write like they talk, which ain't even close. An intensive tech writing course would probably cure most of them. I'm the kind of reader who spots every mistake, and wish I could get paid for every one I find.
- BTW, Wombat is cool. I wonder how common Spear is, I used to work in another program that ended with Spear.Ewsraven (talk) 02:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Connections
I still have some connections at Hurby. What do you want/need? — BQZip01 — talk 00:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
- I have some unclassified paperwork related to Eagle Claw that I would like to see placed with a museum or organization that maintains historical documentation for the mission, if such a thing exists. It is unique and represents a specialized system I was involved with, mainly a pallet with several Navy sonobuoy launchers mounted on it that never got used. I think that system may have been discarded/junked, since I was given the paperwork and told to do whatever I wanted with it. The last time I saw the system was out by the red ball area with some other old equipment (more specifically, it was an area where the EWS shop kept some older equipment).
- The system has historical significance, and I wonder if anyone ever thought to store it or keep it rather than junk it. The EWS shop may know, or the Component Repair Squadron historian (if they have one). I was the only one involved with this system, though initially an electrician was also involved.
- I can supply more info if necessary.Old Crow (talk) 01:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
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- I'd contact the 1st SOW or AFSOC historian. If they don't want it, contact one of the units. They are always looking for stuff in their display cases. If they don't want it, it could be donated to the Armament museum. Just my two cents. — BQZip01 — talk 01:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
