1999 Kosovo/Bosnia Operation Allied Force. Air to Air Refueling Video I made

[mikeinfwa]

Found this video I made while TDY to Germany (Rhein Main AB co-located at Frankfurt Airport) for Operation Allied Force. I was activated while serving in the 434th Air Refueling Wing at Grissom ARB IN.
Various NATO aircraft refueling over the Adriatic and Bosnia during the Kosovo bombing campaign the summer of 1999.
The audio track was ripped from popular computer game...

 

[2ndamendfan]

pretty cool.

 

[TheGerman]

Mainly American sector aircraft.

You guys always had an excuse not to come do CAS on the Albanian border

 

[1J04]

Nice job Mike. Still gets my nut, and the background music was just right. Sortie Madness !!!!!

 

[mikeinfwa]

Nice job Mike. Still gets my nut, and the background music was just right. Sortie Madness !!!!!

Thanks! I spent many hours editing the video to sync with the audio track. I think the computer game was Half Life Opposing Force.

If you look closely at the :35 second mark, you can see a tiny black object racing from right to left. It was another F18 joining the refueling orbit/track.

Also, at the 2:25 mark, the Italian pilot made many unsuccessful attempts to poke the basket. He eventually gave up and radioed AWACS he needed to return to base (RTB) for mechanical problem.. lol

 

[1J04]

Thanks! I spent many hours editing the video to sync with the audio track. I think the computer game was Half Life Opposing Force.

If you look closely at the :35 second mark, you can see a tiny black object racing from right to left. It was another F18 joining the refueling orbit/track.

Also, at the 2:25 mark, the Italian pilot made many unsuccessful attempts to poke the basket. He eventually gave up and radioed AWACS he needed to return to base (RTB) for mechanical problem.. lol

I'll look for the Hornet, I must have missed the sneaky bastard. But ya, watching Boo Boo fumble with the Pik uh Nik Basket was funny, till it weren't. Kinda like Bolter, Bolter, Bolter. Fuck it, rig the net.

 

[mikeinfwa]

Notice the underside paint scheme on the CF-18 Hornet at the 2:55 mark. I don't recall the USAF using this deception scheme at the time.

 

[_Windrider_]

Notice the underside paint scheme on the CF-18 Hornet at the 2:55 mark. I don't recall the USAF using this deception scheme at the time.

CF-18 = Canada not USAF

 

[deersniper]

That was before my time. Did we really support Muslims over Christians ?

 

[Alphatreedog]

Awesome video thanks . Man I love military planes . Don't know if it's the kid in me or the fact that alot of em are friggin guns with wings . Man like a Warthog .
Guy I work with spent eight years doing maintenance for a refueling outfit . I'll find out his unit tomorrow . He was last stationed at MacGuire AFB .

 

[Felhammer]

You’re missing the part where Hillary Clinton Takes fire from the sniper. Lol, great video.

 

[TheGerman]

That was before my time. Did we really support Muslims over Christians ?

Yes, yes we did. Because of 'genocide', religious persecution and muslims. Or what we preferred to call the UN PC trifecta.

The real reason was because everyone wanted to live in politically correct la la land and decided to give away land, now known as Kosovo, to ethnic muslims that were hated in the countries where they lived because they were notorious for doing typical muslim shit and the citizens/government of those countries weren't fucking having it. You know, shit like being terrorists and randomly blowing up things they didn't agree with because the primarily Catholic place they lived in didn't want to bend over to their 'be tolerant of us, but we are not tolerant of any of your stuff'. Sound familiar?

The extreme irony here is that the new inhabitants of Kosovo hated me and all of the people there protecting them as much as they did the people trying to kill them. Meanwhile, I'm getting my ass lit up from 30mm fire and slav squatting faggots that will fight you down to the point of using fucking shovels.

I've said it before in other threads; I was fighting the wrong fucking people.

 

[mikeinfwa]

CF-18 = Canada not USAF

Yes, It's a Canadian F-18. I didn't do a good job with my follow on sentence.

The USAF didn't apply this deception tactic in the 90's that I know of. However, I believe the A10 has this fake cockpit painted on it's underside now.

 

[ArmyJerry]

fucking fly girls

should have let them go at it, you wouldn't have the invasion you have in Europe today if we didnt butt our noses in there.