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bayonetbrant

July 11, 2013, 06:54:16 AM
Delta Force founder's grandkid earning AC-130 quals
Oh yeah, she's also the daughter of one of the BHD operators.  Yes, "she"

QuoteA descendant of Col. Charles Beckwith, who in 1977 founded the Army's Delta Force that today hunts and kills Islamic terrorists, passed the test in May to become a member of the elite special operations forces.

The graduate is not a burly Beckwith man, but the late colonel's 20-year-old granddaughter.

Airman 1st Class Mary Howe is one of the few women qualified as an aerial gunner aboard Air Force special operations AC-130 gunships — the warplanes with accurate cannons unleashed in Iraq and Afghanistan to support troops on the ground.

Airman Howe is the daughter of retired ArmyMaster Sgt. Paul Howe — featured prominently in the best-selling book "Black Hawk Down" about a Delta Force operation in Somalia — and Connie Beckwith Howe, a former Army Reserve major and one of the colonel's three daughters.

"I hold gunships really close to my heart," Airman Howe said from Hurlburt Field on the Florida Panhandle. "They've been over my dad. They watched over him when he was in the military."

The Howe home in Nacogdoches, Texas, is adorned with photos of Beckwith, who persuaded the Pentagon to create the first designated counterterrorism unit known as Delta Force. He is a father of the special operations force and its fusion with intelligence assets and strike aircraft such as the AC-130.

"My parents tried to keep him alive in our family and let me know everything he did," said Airman Howe, who was 1 year old when her grandfather died in 1994 at age 65.

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Martok

#1
July 11, 2013, 07:12:53 AM
Cool story.  Airman Howe has quite the legacy! 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

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GDS_Starfury

#2
July 11, 2013, 07:30:10 PM
why cant I meet the woomanz like that!  >:(
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

Staggerwing

#3
July 11, 2013, 07:49:06 PM
Because you are practical enough not to set the bar that high?
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GDS_Starfury

#4
July 11, 2013, 09:08:28 PM
^^^ that is a very good point Sir.
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

Martok

#5
July 11, 2013, 11:38:52 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 11, 2013, 07:30:10 PM
why cant I meet the woomanz like that!  >:(
I'd say one of the more obvious reasons is that you're probably in the wrong state.  :P 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

GDS_Starfury

#6
July 11, 2013, 11:55:47 PM
IIRC AC-130 crews are based at Eglin AFB in the north part of Florida.
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

Martok

#7
July 12, 2013, 12:37:18 AM
Well shoot. 

Um...maybe they don't venture off-base much?  I guess I got nothin'. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Centurion40

#8
July 12, 2013, 09:09:13 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 11, 2013, 11:55:47 PM
IIRC AC-130 crews are based at Eglin AFB in the north part of Florida.

The story said Hurlburt.  So get your ass up there!
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