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- The FOL called, there are now six pits open and we are cross
training with the A-10 folks so we can pit any jet that comes
into the line up. Also, the turn times took about 22 minutes
today, over 60% down from two days ago. Folks up there are fired
up and love turning jets at that rate.

- a/c 1218 is stuck at the FOL for fuel transfer problems.

- Per ops, the 10th pilots will no longer rainbow into the other
two amu's due to the pods. Not sure why they flew them for the
first three weeks and then decided against it. This is going to
hurt, because we often made lines due to their flexibility in
accepting aircraft from all three amu's.

FEB 7: DAY 22

- A/C 1213 stuck at Bateen, they changed the FTIT indicator for
the jet and no EHR flags were tripped. All three flew back and
1213 landed code 1.

- a/c 1218 returned from Jubail.

- a/c 1403 returned from the FOL.

- During a chaff/flare check a jet turned in front of another one
and blew the canopy back shearing off bolts.

- Today we sent one of our F-16 with travel pods on a run to the
FOL. This worked out good and it didn't require CENTAF to divert
a C-130 especially for us.

- We flew 127/128 combat sorties and 134 for the day.

- We received a Spectroil from Incirlik and it is up and running.
Our NDI troop and the busted machine are still not back. The
machine at the FOL is still experiencing a few burps and Major
Karr has requested NDI's presence until he is sure the machine is
up and running. 

- All in all a real good, calm day. The jets flew well and we
did not have nearly the amount of crises and bugs that we did the
previous day. Even in war, it still comes in cycles.



FEB 8: DAY 23

- Today started with a ground emergency on a/c 1223 for a possi-
ble initiated fuze. It turned out to be a false alarm.

- Briefed at the meeting today to slow down and do quality main-

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