Hang, after the fighter sweep of which I was a part of, I organised a buff strike on nit HQ/city. What a flop! We had 6 buffs and 2 scorts sittin on the runway at 1. We rolled, and it all went downhill from there. One of our buffs dissapeared, and we never heard from him again. A few minutes later, one of our buffs got discoed, leaving us down to 4. Next, we find that one of us is really trailing behind. After a little investigation, we find that he has brought 100% fuel instead of 50%! Doh! He falls back to the point that we lose vis of him. And then there were 3. When we crossed the mountains and were betweern 22 and 21, we met some knight resistance, and the lowest of the 3 was picked off by a con. (we're gonna get you next time dolomite

) Ok we're down to 2 buffs, and all our escorts are engaged in the furball in the mountains. Me and beef keep moving towards our target, but get more opposition. Beefcake gets bounced from below, sending him smoking, and he turned around. Oh great, im the last man standing, and with no cover!

Here comes good old dolomite and madvlad to take care of me. Few minutes later im missing a few engines, a wing or 2, my tail surfaces, and im falling back to mother earth. This raid was a nice flop, but I couldn't help to find it funny that our force of 6 buffs and escorts couldn't even get 1 buff to the target

Happy Flying

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Mark VanZwoll
33rd Strike Group