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STRAIGHT FLUSH radar, 54
“sucker holes,” 260–61
The Sun Also Rises (movie), 64
Super Sabre jets
as first anti-SAM planes, 22–23
in Vietnam War, 24, 25, 26
“Support the Troops” movement, 163
“Surface Attack.” See bomb-dropping
Surface Attack Tactics (SAT), 138
Surface-to-Air-Missiles. See SAMs; type of SAM
survival training, 40–42
Syria
Iraqi-Israeli relations and, 180
SA-6s and, 54
T-37 jet trainers, 34, 36, 37
T-38 jet trainers, 37, 39, 40
Tactical Air Command (TAC), 39
Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS), 39
Tactics Officers, Desert Storm veterans as, 155
Taji (Baghdad suburb), 242, 243, 247, 251, 256
Taliban, 124
Tallil Air Field (Iraq), 280
tanker pilots, at Incirik officer’s club, 86
tankers
in Desert Storm, 67, 76, 79–80, 81–82
F16s flight to Dhahran Air Base and, 118–19
Iraq War and, 7–8, 12, 186, 187–91, 192, 216, 228, 235, 242, 267, 281, 289, 290, 291, 300
9/11 and, 158
no-fly zones and, 142
See also refueling
tapes and mission planning materials, sandstorm landing and, 208
Target Arm. See Weapons Officers
Target Designator (TD) box, 77, 78, 239, 246, 251, 255
Target Management switch, 269
targeting
Iraqi defense measures and, 146
See also HARM
Tartar Lake (Buhayrat ath Tharthar) (Iraq), 249–50, 291, 292, 294
TARZAN (Desert Storm call sign), 81
technology
and anticipation of battles with Iraq, 145–46
Iraq-U.S. relations and transfer of, 177–78
Iraq War and, 170
missile, 245
TENDON (Iraq War call sign), 187, 188, 191, 192, 193
10 Percent Rule, 87
terrorism
Hampton’s views about, 163–64