fdelano Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Cold War In a clockwise orbit seven miles over Greenland I stay awake with continuous coffee, reporting our position to SAC headquarters every hour, waiting for, dreading the coded call authorized by the CinC of the USA. When the four letters coincide from our plastic holders with the broadcast that sends us across the H-line, we don helmets and strap into parachutes installed in ejection seats, our very souls on alert. Our target is pulled from memory and circled on the navigator’s chart. I start marking long-range search radars and set jammers. We descend to five hundred feet, pilots closing thermal curtains over windshields Flying now with Forward Looking Radar, following the terrain, our minds go blank as we tend to the mechanics of duties sworn, not allowing thoughts of nowhere left to land. AAA and SAMs fly past behind us as our inexorable path takes us at ten miles a minute to our target of defense missiles surrounding Moscow. At IP inbound, I begin jamming threat radars as flak blossoms all around us. At bombs away, we rise rapidly to escape the coming nuclear explosion, our spirits dead to any emotion. We turn toward home, knowing little will be there, the enemy ICBMs having done their job. I exit the simulator and head for the chow hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen M. Callirhoe Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 the last stanza was ironic. i was thinking you are lucky to be alive lol. i enjoye this immensely. was in college back in the mid 90's pre-med pharmacy. something i enjoyed at the time. now i am in cllege attending a university for computer psychology. i wan my masters in that field. i resume classed may 7. i am doing wll. i have a straght A average so far. i have a 93.7 average which is not t shabby.i wanted to take up flying i want to be on a scout plane at sea. this poem had me glued. i read your blog page. i enjoyed reading most of the logs, i will go back and read more of course. i had a free blog page on yahoo plus when it was free. without notice they discontinued the free service nd took my blog posts don. i have onethru ivy bridge university but it is not for the public. i don't know how to make my gmail blog universal lol. victor Quote Larsen M. Callirhoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Yes, the simulator threw me a curve at the end, Franklin. Till then, the poem had taken me to the days of the Dew Line. Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelano Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 Yes. The dew line across Canada set off several false alarms, causing we crewmembers much mental torture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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