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offensive jamming pods, 18<br />

Office of Military Cooperation, Egyptian, 109<br />

Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), 151<br />

An Officer and a Gentleman (movie), 40<br />

Officer’s Club<br />

characteristics of, 85<br />

at Incirik Air Base, 85–97<br />

non-fighter men at, 89–90<br />

warning of attack on, 90–91<br />

173rd Airborne Brigade, 290<br />

Operation Allied Force. See Kosovo<br />

Operation Arc Light (Vietnam War), 18<br />

Operation Flaming Dart (Vietnam War), 18<br />

Operation Iraqi Freedom. See Iraq War<br />

Operation Iron Hand (Vietnam War), 24<br />

Operation Linebacker (Vietnam War), 28<br />

Operation Linebacker II (Vietnam War), 28<br />

Operation Rolling Thunder (Vietnam War), 18, 26, 27<br />

Operation Thunder Run (Iraq War), 232<br />

operational Air Force, organization of, 45–46<br />

Operations Group Commanders, 210<br />

OPIE (call sign), 62<br />

Orca (Desert Storm pilot), 70, 73, 74–76, 81, 82, 86, 87<br />

Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), 127<br />

Pamplona (Spain), running of bulls in, 63–64<br />

Paris Peace Talks, 28<br />

Patch Night, for FWIC, 139<br />

patches, TAC, 39<br />

Patchwearers. See Weapons Officers<br />

Patriot missile<br />

mistaken launching of, 81–82, 86, 87<br />

sandstorm landing and, 201<br />

in Turkey, 81–82, 83, 86, 87<br />

PEACE VECTOR (PV) program, Hampton assignment to, 109–20<br />

Pentagon, 9/11 attack on, 160–61<br />

piddle packs, 4, 117, 211<br />

pilots. See fighter pilots<br />

The Plan (Air-Tasking Order “Frag”), 84<br />

politics<br />

Iraq War and, 167<br />

“shock and awe” and, 183<br />

POW camp, Hampton in mock, 41–42<br />

Powers, Francis Gary, 17, 20<br />

Predators (UAVs), 291<br />

Prince Sultan Air Base (Saudi Arabia)<br />

Gamblers departure from, 302<br />

grounding of Hampton at, 211–13<br />

Hampton as based at, 166–67, 182–84, 211–15

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