"I'll Wait"!!

[Knowdafish]

According to a Marine Pilot:

In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be transiting Iranian airspace.

This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination.

I just flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz while flying from Europe to Dubai . It's too good not to pass along. The conversation went something like this...

Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft at (location unknown), you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.'

Air Defense Radar: ' You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!'

Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!'

Air Defense Radar: (no response ... total silence)


You just gotta love those Marines! Semper Fi!

 

[UNKNOWN_MALONE]

hhahaha my father sent me this email!!! haha nice knowda

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

AWESOME SEMPER FI

 

[JIM]

Nice story. thanks for relaying that. It always makes me sleep better at night knowing what kind of men we have out there protecting all of us. And we should all remember them at Christmas time, and i know we do. Lots of our guys are out there just doing what they consider their job, and wont see much Christmas this year.

 

[Knowdafish]

God bless all our troops!

 

[navygirl76]

lol love it! semper fi!!

 

[crowconor]

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