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Mike Busutil

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While we wait for the LS MiG-21 I thought I would share some of my pictures I took of some dead Iraqi MiG's and other aircraft. I did a deployment in 2006 to Habbaniyah Iraq. (Approximately 10 miles west of Fallujah)

 

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Bullet holes...

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Two seater

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Front cockpit

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I took a mach gauge from this MiG-21 to bring home and have in my office. But when I left Iraq "they" told me I was not allowed to keep it as it was a "prize of war" or something like that. They kept it during my packout... Too bad because that would of been really cool to have.

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Great pictures, I would've tried to snag a souvenir from one of them.

 

 

I took a mach gauge from the Black MiG-21 to bring home and have in my office. But when I left Iraq "they" told me I was not allowed to keep it as it was a "prize of war" or something like that. They kept it during my packout... Too bad because that would of been really cool to have.

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There is something in these pictures that makes me go bit sad. Maybe its just to see fighter aircrafts in so bad shape just left to open for ever.

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Beautiful pics but heartbreaking to see state those birds came to. The Vampire pic is amazing, bomb still attached - I assume it's a training round.

 

In the Tucson boneyard, just browsing the pics on google, look what I found:

They certainly look like F15s to me :cry:

 

 

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"ROSEBUD".

 

You owe me a new keyboard. :D

 

LOL I loved that one as well.

 

I took a mach gauge from the Black MiG-21 to bring home and have in my office. But when I left Iraq "they" told me I was not allowed to keep it as it was a "prize of war" or something like that. They kept it during my packout... Too bad because that would of been really cool to have.

 

WWII we had soldiers bringing back Lugers, these days you can't even bring home a fountain pen you found on the ground.:doh: It isn't like you were walking away with Babylonian pottery, shame they didn't let you keep the gauge.

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To bottomless perdition, there to dwell; In adamantine chains and penal fire"

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WWII we had soldiers bringing back Lugers, these days you can't even bring home a fountain pen you found on the ground.:doh: It isn't like you were walking away with Babylonian pottery, shame they didn't let you keep the gauge.

 

In Vietnam, I've read at least one account of how official regulations allowed anything up to an SKS rifle to be sent home by mail.

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someone cut a canopy section and ship it back to me on a palet? lol..

 

So when I fly DCS MIG-21 I can sit in the mig pit complete with closing canopy,:music_whistling:

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Get hooked up with some local, I doubt he'd mind making a hundred bucks (probably a months worth of salary) or so by dismantling part of what he considers to be trash in his backyard. :P

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Haukka81,

 

Wanna see something real sad....look this up....Images for air force boneyard Tucson .

 

All our tax dollars and if you want something there you have to buy it...nothing is given away....errr except to movie studios.

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There's a few latex'd F-16's in there that were destined for NZ back in early 2000. But we put a woman in charge of the country and that was that really.

 

Sad

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