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There is a report that a Chinese fighter nearly collided with a U.S. Surveillance Plane last week.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.usni.org\/2015\/09\/22\/pentagon-chinese-aircraft-conducted-an-unsafe-intercept-of-u-s-surveillance-plane-last-week<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe department is reviewing a report from U.S. [Pacific Command] regarding a Sept. 15 intercept of a U.S. RC-135 by two JH-7 aircraft from the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban told USNI News on Tuesday.<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cOne of the maneuvers conducted by a PRC aircraft during the intercept was perceived as unsafe by the RC-135 aircrew. At this point there is no indication that there was a \u2018near collision\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I found this very interesting because during my tours in South East Asia I flew several combat missions on RC135 Surveillance planes. When you think about it that is pretty incredible.\u00a0 We are flying the same planes today, doing the same kind of missions, more than 45 years later.<\/p>\n

This is a reminder that every day brave crew members fly these kinds of missions, literally tweaking the tail of the tiger. They receive almost no recognition, because these types of missions are highly classified.\u00a0 That does not make them less dangerous.\u00a0 Some of my friends from language school were killed when North Korea shot down an EC121 Surveillance plane.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1969_EC-121_shootdown_incident<\/a><\/p>\n

The following article, published on June 19, 2013 gives a redacted history of the RC-135.\u00a0 Interestingly this does not discuss the missions I was on.\u00a0 These missions, Combat Apple, are discussed in the following article:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.coldwar.org\/text_files\/rb47_rc135.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Combat Apple was on station 24 hours a day without break for several years.\u00a0 We did not lose any RC-135 during these harrowing incidents.\u00a0 That, unfortunately, was not true for some of the other aircraft I flew on. The following paragraph was particularly interesting to me:<\/p>\n

The RC-135Ms sometimes became so weary, they had to be flown back to the U.S. for major maintenance or complete overhaul. During those occasions, one or two RC-135Ds, from the 6SW at Eielson AFB, were flown in to help out. That often caused more problems than it solved. The D-models, acclimated to the cold dry conditions in Alaska, began to leak badly and malfunction in the hot, humid Pacific environment. They also had to compensate for the reduced range and altitude of the smaller-engined D-models.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I flew on several missions on the D-model and if anything it was much worse than indicated.\u00a0 The plane could not take off with a full load of fuel.\u00a0 In fact, it could barely take off at all.\u00a0 We had these incredibly long take-off runs while the airplane struggled to lift off.\u00a0 Then, as soon as we reached altitude, we had to refuel almost immediately.\u00a0 It made an intolerably long mission even longer.<\/p>\n

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I just wrote this to pay tribute to those brave men and now women who continue to risk their lives protecting us every day.\u00a0 In most cases very few people even know they exist. Freedom isn\u2019t free.<\/p>\n

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TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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