I flew the epic mission the whole flight and never once did I hear or see anyone using the memorial flight as cover either. Have to call B.S. on anyone that has used that as and excuse to attack the memorial flight.
If you're saying you didn't read numerous statements on 200 saying that the supposed "EPIC" mission coming out of rookland was the memorial flight, you either weren't paying attention or didn't have 200 tuned. I
KNOW because I saw the huge dar and multitude of red dots, and upped 3 sectors in front of them and spent the entire climb monitoring 200 and trying to figure out what was going on. I knew the Memorial flight was that night, but knew nothing else about it (not even that it was originating Bish, not rook). I figured I'd either join this huge formation coming our way, or attack it if it was
not the memorial flight. REPEATED questions went out on country and on range about the nature of the huge formation, and REPEATEDLY comments were made to the effect of "this is the memorial fligt, don't attack us" - that were later replied to by others with "that's not the memorial flight, it doesn't take off for another hour." Junky made repeated statements that he intended to attack the formation headed east to Knight strats, to which replies were made such as "this is the memorial flight" and "if you attack us you're a $%#$%"....... those people making those replies knew that the memorial flight was not up yet, and they weren't part of it. I don't recall the names, and unfortunately didn't have film rolling, but I know for a **** fact it did happen.
I SAW Junky attacking the rook formation, I was within icon range (for those of you too dense to still not understand that he was NOT and to my knowledge DID NOT attack the actual memorial flight) of him when he was engaged by a Pony and 2 47's that were escorting the buffs.
Here's a request, for someone whom may have been either attacking the EPIC mission or was a part of it, and happened to have film rolling: Post up the film of the epic mission, beginning to end, and I'll gladly go through every second of it and post up here exactly who said what and what they said, and we'll see that what I said happened did actually happen. Any takers?
