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- I elected to rainbow pilots to the squadron with the least
amount of sorties for that go. They can jump in a spare there.
With the airfield spread out, we plugged them wherever we could
and brought anything FMC onto the schedule that was "geographi-
cally close". Otherwise you may not have the time to get permis-
sion to cross to the other side from tower or even be able to if
all the other jets have taxied. 

- I had to prepare for increasingly tight turn times as the war
progresses. Make sure the well motivated and trained load crews
are in abundance.

- For deviation purposes, only non-effective combat sorties need
to be reported i.e. ground aborts that do not go with their
package or jets that IFE or air abort back in after take off.

- We flew the 40 X 40 and they all made it back again!!!

JAN 19: DAY 3

- Because of the possibility of Israeli involvement after Irag
launched SCUD's on them, our targets have changed. 
	[(b)(5)] We are revisiting areas in search of
the mobile SCUD's, and search and destroy of the missiles, mov-
bile or fixed, has become our new primary mission.

- We are slated to fly a 48 X 40.

- With the change in targeting comes a change in the frag. Now
lines 1-8 and lines 41-48 are on alert. They stepped at 0915
local to go after SCUD's. We must exercise extreme flexibility
now that are targets are so non-firm and likely to change.

- At [(b)(1)sec 3.4 (b)(4)] local there were more SCUD's launched at Israel and the
frag changed again. The second go, all 40 lines fuzes have been
changed to instantaneous. Lines 65-68 have 10 seconds on them
for air bursts.

- The second go we launched 38 out of the scheduled 40 lines.
The ground abort had FO in the cockpit. The spare he stepped to
had a fuel strainer leak. The second was a sympathy.

- We launched 8 more SCUD hunter sorties at noon from the 33rd.
These were lines 25-32. This means that we had 16+8+38 jets in
the air at one time for a grand total of 62. Good time to let
the troops catch a breather.

- I felt the need to remind everyone that no one person is indis-
pensable to the war. At this point it looks like it will drag on
for longer than expected and it is important that people get on a
regular work shift. Everyone has to fight the tendency to micro-
manage, it doesn't work. If you don't have confidence in your

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