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Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: "In February 1999,
only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's
Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C. R. Anderegg, USAF
(Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe.
Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served
together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly
thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked
back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a
laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from
"glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements
in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf
War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the
people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer
who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly.
Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at
Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as
an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions. But he also
takes a look at other "Fighter Mafia" outposts in the Pentagon and
elsewhere. Readers meet young Mafiosi like John Jumper, Larry
Keith, Ron Keys, Joe Bob Phillips, Earl Henderson, Moody Suter,
John Corder, Jim Brown, John Vickery, Jack Lefforge, Jack Ihle,
Stump Bowen, Dave Dellwardt, Tommy Dyches, John Madden, and Dick
Myers. As one might expect to find in a fighter pilot story, there
is a lot of fun along the way. For a distilled example, consult the
appendix on "Jeremiah Weed" (replete with instructions for drinking
"afterburners"). Colonel Anderegg's book is likely to please anyone
with an interest in fighter pilots and how they molded today's Air
Force.
In November 1991 the American flag was lowered for the last time at
Clark Air Base in the Philippines. This act brought to an end
American military presence in the Philippines that extended back
over 90 years. It also represented the final act in a drama that
began with the initial rumblings in April of that year of the Mount
Pinatubo volcano, located about nine miles to the east of Clark.
The following pages tell the remarkable story of the men and women
of the Clark community and their ordeal in planning for and
carrying out their evacuation from Clark in face of the impending
volcanic activity. It documents the actions of those who remained
on the base during the series of Mount Pinatubo's eruptions, and
the packing out of the base during the subsequent months. This is
the story of the "Ash Warriors," those Air Force men and women who
carried out their mission in the face of an incredible series of
natural disasters, including volcanic eruption, flood, typhoons,
and earthquakes, all of which plagued Clark and the surrounding
areas during June and July 1991. The author of The Ash Warriors
knew the situation first hand. Col. Dick Anderegg was the vice
commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing when the volcano
erupted, and he was at Clark throughout the evacuation and standing
down of the base. He brought his own personal experience to bear in
writing this story. He also conducted extensive research in the
archives of the Pacific Air Forces and Thirteenth Air Force,
utilized scores of interviews of those who witnessed and
participated in the events, and visited Clark in 1998 to see in
person how the installation had changed in the eight years since
the Americans left.
Discusses the terrorist truck bombing of Khobar Towers that
occurred in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. Nineteen American
servicemen were killed and many people were injured. First
published in 2008. Illustrated.
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Sierra Hotel (Paperback)
C. R. Anderegg; Foreword by Richard P. Hallion
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