On 1 Oct 2003 01:28:15 -0700, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> belched
the alphabet and kept on going with:

>On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:03:29 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom  ...
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>>"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
>>news:bldljb011s9@drn.newsguy.com...
>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:51:26 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom  ...
>>> >
>>> >Oh, it's not so bad once you get used to it. Besides, my windows only
>>rattle
>>> >just a little when an F-15 flies by.
>>> >
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>>>
>>> F-15s? I don't know much about US forces in Japan, inspite of the fact
>>that I
>>> listen to the US radio thingy in the morning but. Is there airforce down
>>there?
>>> I thought it was just navy.
>>
>>I don't know crap about what planes and stuff they have down here, and don't
>>want to, but the big base near my house is Kadena Air Force Base. Pretty
>>sure I've seen F-15s parked out there.
>>
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>Didn't they give you an orientation when you signed up? 
>
>They'll be F-15s then, noisy buggers. F-16 are smaller and you would probably
>not confuse the two.
>
>I was surfing(*) in Queensland once. When I was lying on my board two F-111s
>(like F-14s but bigger) snuck up behind me, travelling at Mach 143 and at 50
>meters above sealevel. Scared the crap out of me. I was already a bit shakey
>after a dolphin leapt out of the water and slapped down on his/her side. Bloody
>dolphins or maybe he was warning me about the planes.

I was riding my motorcycle down a peaceful two-lane highway in West
Tennessee (where God lives) one time when two jets from the Naval Air
Station in Millington snuck up from behind me flying at treetop level
plus about three inches. Scared the living shit out of me. I'm still
amazed I didn't crash.