Scott O'Grady Story- the uncut version (fwd)
Bonnie Surfus (ENG)
surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Thu Jul 20 08:19:30 CDT 1995
I hope you don't mind. It's a bit of a wade to the story. Very
interesting. Also, see if the "characters" dont' sound like a bunch from
a TRP story.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 15:09:08 +0100
From: Kathy Rosilio <rosilio at sunburn.eng.usf.edu>
To: "Bonnie Surfus (ENG)" <surfus at chuma.cas.usf.edu>, casario at eng.usf.edu,
"Susan Northcutt (GIA)" <northcut at luna.cas.usf.edu>,
kathy rosilio <rosilio at sunburn.eng.usf.edu>, usib5ff7 at ibmmail.com,
kathy rosilio <rosilio at sunburn.eng.usf.edu>,
kathy rosilio <rosilio at sunburn.eng.usf.edu>
Subject: Scott O'Grady Story- the uncut version
The most amazing part of this message is not just the headers on what I'm
forwarding to you, but adding together all the headers that are on all the
other offramps this message has taken on the Info Superhwy! I wonder how
many people total this story has been sent to. What a story at the end!!
Enjoy--
Kathy
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>From: "Jennifer Isenbeck (CH)" <isenbeck at SUNTAN.ENG.USF.EDU>
>Subject: Scott O'Grady Story- the uncut version
>To: Multiple recipients of list CLUBTALK <CLUBTALK at CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU>
>
>Hey all you clubtalkers, well in case you're interested I had this
>forwarded to me. This has caused quite a bit of controversy because the
>military is not sure if the info should be spread throughout the
>internet, notice all the forwarding---How's that for the info super highway.
>
>Enjoy
>
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>
>p.s. I'm attaching this VERY INCREDIBLE description of the Scott O'Grady
>rescue mission, written by one of the F-16 pilots who supported out of an air
>base in Italy. I image you'll be talking like this some day. Also, check
>out the routing this e-mail has already gone through in a matter of weeks.
>Amazing.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Johnson Lee on Wed, Jul 12, 1995 9:50 AM
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: Davis Paul; Flanagan, Neal F; Grimm David; Jones David A; Mogensen Jeff;
>Morrill Kevin; Rich Daniel A; Sauer Mark
>
>Dudes,
>I thought you guys might find
>this interesting.
>LJ
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Glenn A. Edwards on Tue, Jul 11, 1995 8:50 PM
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: Axler, Neil
>Cc: Bauman, Brian; Brooks, Dave; Camosy, Joe; Douds, John; Eddy, Dave;
>Ettinger, Steve; Johnson, Lee; Kovacs, Jay; Livingston, Bob; Powers, Dave;
>Robinson, Rob; Vitale, Steve; Wyatt, Steve
>
>
>straight from the horse's mouth...
>
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>From: "Wallar, Eric", INTERNET:wallar#m#_eric at msgw.vf.mmc.com
>DATE: 7/11/95 7:44 AM
>
>RE: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>
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>From: "Wallar, Eric" <wallar#m#_eric at msgw.vf.mmc.com>
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: "Bose, Andy" <abose at kirk.dnet.ge.com>,
> "Edwards, Glenn" <75353.2115 at compuserve.com>,
> "Murphy, Kristen" <kmurphy at kirk.dnet.ge.com>,
> "Penrod, John" <jrpenrod at sph.umich.edu>
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>Now that my outside e-mail is working again, I thought you guys might find
>this interesting.
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Ruland, Kit on Wed, Jun 28, 1995 11:02 AM
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: DeAgro, Paul; Dennis, Anthony; Dunn, Michael; Falvo, Barry; Giacoponello,
>Sue; Hartman, Tim; Hendricks, George; Junker, Tom; Lebedinsky, Alex; Lindsey,
>Nancy; Mac Silvester; Pesce, Joseph; Rawicz, Paul; Stauffer, Todd; Tamir
>Merhav; Thomas, Miguel; Tirabassi, Karen; Wallar, Eric; Watler, Marcus;
>Westphal, Mark; Wilson, Brenda
>
>This is worth reading. Kit
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: VanHise, David on Wed, Jun 28, 1995 10:16
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: Ruland, Kit
>
>Kit - I read this and knew you would enjoy it. Hope things are well with you
>-
>or as well as practical considering the recent business announcement. Take
>care and "watch your six" - Dave
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Hritzo, James on Wed, Jun 28, 1995 8:43 AM
>Subject: FW: Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue - The Rest of the Story
>To: Ashman, Scott; Davis, James; Denney, Valerie; DiPiano, Tony; Fellers,
>Chris; Futchko, George; Giacoponello, Chris; griego,ed; kimberly h ethridge;
>Mazzocco, Carl; miller, chris; o'brien,bob; peters, dave; Preperato, Mike;
>Rausa James F; Scott, Jeffrey; smollinger,glenn; Stipandic, Edward; Ulman,
>Daniel; VanHise, David; Weikel, George
>
>a most interesting perspective on recent history!
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Koons, Robert on Wed, Jun 28, 1995 08:22
>Subject: FW: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of th
>To: Hritzo, James; Lombardo, John; Mazzocco, Carl; Tralie, John W
>
>It's important that we keep the mail moving
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Hughes, Robert O on Jun 27, 1995 11:16 AM
>Subject: FW: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of th
>To: Harding, Roger R; Koons, Robert; Stetson, John B
>
>FYI - it's getting around..
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Zweben, Carl H on Mon, Jun 26, 1995 5:47 PM
>Subject: FW: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of th
>To: Bader, Professor M.; Berkowitz, Milt; Boyle, Robert; Cohen, Prof. I. M. ;
>Crowley, Dan; Davies, Robert; Drake, James UCLA; Elliott, Dennis N; Faddis,
>Mary E; Geber, Craig UCLA; Goodin, Dr. William UCLA; Hennessy, Marcus;
>Hocker, John - MMC HQ; Hughes, Robert O; Ivey, Ron; Jim Hansen; John William
>Jahn; Kedward, K. c/o Townsley, Chris - UCSB; Krug, Candi; Loud, Steve;
>Loughin, Stephen; McLaughlin, Prof. Philip V. Villanova; Moran, Martin III;
>Newman, Larry; Panaccio, Joan; Preziosi, Steve; Rawal, Suraj P; Reifsnider,
>Prof. K. VA Tech; Rossi, Syl; Sekula, John; Sekula, John EW; Talley, Eric;
>Trench, Joe; Vichnin, Herb; WARF_YM at cayman.vf.mmc.com; Watanabe, Nonie
>
>To: Everyone
>My daughter at Berkeley sent me this.
>I think this story and the route it took are fascinating.
>I hope you all find it interesting.
>
>Carl Zweben
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>From: Wendy Reichardt on Mon, Jun 26, 1995 3:13 PM
>Subject: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of th
>To: Zweben, Carl H
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>From: kebrown at haas.berkeley.edu at SMTPGATE
>Date: 6/25/95 9:31AM
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>Subject: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of th
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Daddy,
>
>Well info superhighway is now even more intense -- here's the inside story
>of one military guy emailing his buddies about rescuing Scott O'Gready in
>Bosnia -- look how many times this has been forwarded -- the actual message
>is way down at the bottom!
>
>-Heard about the closures -- any sense of time frame? I'll call tonight
>when I get home.
>
>-Wendy
>
>This is pretty incredible - half the story is the path this message took to
>get to you. (It's about the Bosnian rescue mission.)
>
>-Kevin
>
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>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:36:23 -0400
>From: Douggates at aol.com
>To: kebrown at haas.berkeley.edu, ebudde at cornerstone.com,
> jrozoff at cornerstone.com, astavrop at cornerstone.com
>Subject: Fwd: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>From: Allison_Morgan at peoplesoft.com (Allison Morgan)
>To: cool at fx.com (cool), morganc at attmail.com (morganc),
>70703.1614 at compuserve.com (70703.1614), pcote at cornerstone.com (pcote),
>dgates at cornerstone.com (dgates), oconnell at sgi.com (oconnell),
>bruno at socketms.mhs.compuserve.com (bruno), edjames at migration.com (edjames),
>hahn at den.com (hahn), cfladd at ucsd.edu (cfladd),
>Dalia_Chatterjee at peoplesoft.com (Dalia Chatterjee),
>Geoff_Wolfe at peoplesoft.com (Geoff Wolfe), William_Parker at peoplesoft.com
>(William Parker), Rodylyn_Dacanay at peoplesoft.com (Rodylyn Dacanay),
>Amy_Wirt at peoplesoft.com (Amy Wirt), Bill_Draper at peoplesoft.com (Bill Draper),
>
>L_Richards.1-408-259-4302.FAX at peoplesoft.com (L Richards)
>Date: 95-06-23 14:45:43 EDT
>
>To: Allison Morgan
>cc:
>From: franco @ auspex.com (Frank Minjarez) @ NET
>Date: 06/21/95 10:25:09 AM
>Subject: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
>
>Forwarded message:
>>From myers at balto.co.uk Wed Jun 21 09:34:00 1995
>From: myers at balto.co.uk (Margaret Myers)
>Message-Id: <9506211731.ZM23876 at data.balto.co.uk>
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 17:31:52 +0100
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>To: franco at auspex.com, marks at latimes.com, frel at rand.org
>Subject: (Fwd) The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
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>--- Forwarded mail from cobleigh at manta.nosc.mil (M. Cobleigh)
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>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 09:23:55 PDT
>From: cobleigh at manta.nosc.mil (M. Cobleigh)
>To: rmyers at manta.nosc.mil, myers at manta.nosc.mil, celtic at cts.com
>Subject: The Scott "Zulu" O'Grady Rescue -- The Rest of the Story
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>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>To: jfj at bedford.progress.com
> Jeff,
> Don't know if you have seen this yet. Thought you'd enjoy
> it. Bob
>
> PS. Half of the story is the route this has taken to get
> here from the Bosnia. We now have given warriors the
> technology to report directly from the battlefield rather
> than leaving it to the news anchors to garble the story.
> Could be a defining moment in news history.
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Author: TDOLAN at PTPLAN2
>Date: 6/14/95 2:18 PM
>
>FYI
>Tom Dolan
>__________________________________
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Author: matos at ccmailpc.ctron.com at INTERNET
>Date: 6/14/95 1:05 PM
>
>I thought you guys may find this interesting.
>
>Tony
>P.S. BEAT NAVY!!
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Author: wp-forum at pencom.com at !INTERNET
>Date: 06/14/95 10:12 AM
>
>=*=
>=*= AOG-NET Message Router, Majordomo (1.93), wp-forum
>=!= PENCOM (PSW) does NOT guarantee the technical accuracy nor any
>=!= claims made nor does PENCOM necessarily agree with the
>=!= issues/topics discussed in this list.
>=*=
>
>Check out the forwarding history on this one! Original E-mail from the F-16
>squadron at Aviano.
>
>Mike Cochrane '79
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Author: Timothy Clapp at ~tea06
>Date: 6/14/95 9:38 AM
>
>Best story I've read in a long time. Enjoy!
>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Author: ,"Avery, Mike MAJ (USACAP)" <averym at shafter-emh3.army.mil> at
>DDN/Internet
>Date: 6/13/95 1:18 PM
>
>Originated-by: "Avery, Mike MAJ (USACAP)" <averym at shafter-emh3.army.mil>
>To: Timothy Clapp <clappt at baileys-emh5.army.mil>
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 13:18:00 PDT
>
>Hey Tim,
>
>Here's a true story for you.
>
>Mike
> ----------
>Originated-by: Woltz, Al LTC
>To: VanDyke, L. MAJ (Div Chem); Boaldin, Bob; Davis, Walter C. MSG (DCSOPS);
>Neal, Barry MAJ; Toyama, Jann; Tune, John MW4; Wolozyn, Michael D. LTC;
>Avery, Mike MAJ (USACAP); 'MAJ Tom Woloszyn'
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Date: Monday, June 12, 1995 4:50PM
>
>
> ----------
>Originated-by: Scott, Thomas D. COL (DCSOPS)
>To: Patykula, T. LTC; Aguigui, Henry SGM; Bailey, Kenneth R. (ADCSOPS);
>Ball, Stephen C. LTC; Belleperche, Keyko CPT; Carr, Audrey LTC; Durante,
>Kirk L. LTC; Gibson, Joe LTC; Krammer, Frank LTC; Sorensen, Clark LTC;
>Welch, Douglas LTC; Woltz, Al LTC
>Subject: FW: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Date: Monday, June 12, 1995 4:35PM
>
>FYI
> ----------
>Originated-by: Pernell, Mark COL (DCSINT)
>To: Hale, David R. E. MG (DCG); Ord, Robert L. III LTG (CG); Wintrich,
>Frederick COL(DCofS); Scott, Thomas D. COL (DCSOPS)
>Subject: RESCUED! -- The Rest of the Story
>Date: Friday, 09 June, 1995 12:25
>
>Sir, FYI.
> ----------
>Originated-by: Boyd, Kenneth K. CPT
>To: Pernell, Mark S. COL (DCSINT)
>Subject: FW: Fwd: RESCUED!
>Date: Friday, June 09, 1995 11:45AM
>
>For your reading pleasure,
>
> Capt Boyd
> ----------
>Originated-by: DOTW_Westberry
>To: ALL/DO
>Subject: RE: Fwd: RESCUED!
>Date: Friday, June 09, 1995 8:02AM
>
>Lets here it for the good guys!!!
>
>Westy
>____________________________________________________________________________
>Originated-by: LVCrab at aol.com on Fri, Jun 9, 1995 3:57 AM
>Subject: Fwd: RESCUED!
>To: jlengyel at txskf.ang.af.mil; t.tousignant at genie.geis.com; EnosF16 at aol.com;
>EdianeW at aol.com; F16Schwack at aol.com; JohnBarney at aol.com; DSimonsen at aol.com;
>PKLASVEGAS at aol.com; 73501.146 at compuserve.com; JoeyF4G at aol.com; DJL1 at aol.com;
>MCFLYFAM4 at aol.com; TGKrazy at aol.com; Hitopf1 at aol.com
>
>An awesome story...
>
>Crab
> ---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>Originated-by: 71713.506 at compuserve.com (Scott Zobrist)
>To: 72212.2224 at compuserve.com (STEPHEN G BOJACK),
>72734.1711 at compuserve.com (EDWARD W BROCKHAUS),
>lvcrab at aol.com (Manning, Crab),
>74717.353 at compuserve.com (JAMES C FOGLE),
>cca at hq.centaf.af.mil (Jane/CCA),
>74717.241 at compuserve.com (BRIAN J MCCULLOUGH),
>millertj at emh.misawa.af.mil (T.J. Miller),
>71700.2735 at compuserve.com (GREGORY A MOORE),
>72612.2375 at compuserve.com (PARKER J PENNINGS),
>74717.30 at compuserve.com (MARC SASSEVILLE),
>74534.357 at compuserve.com (TODD K SHEEHY),
>cweggema at emh.kunsan.af.mil (Chris Weggeman),
>35FSDOW at emh.kunsan.af.mil (Kunsan Weapons)
>
>Date: 95-06-08 19:32:48 EDT
>
>(8 Jun 95)
>To all my Viper buds and other Shit Hot Fighter Gods on the net -
>
>It was a good day at Aviano! As you guys have no doubt heard, we
>rescued Scott "Zulu" O'Grady today after 6 days of E&Eing in the Bosnian
>countryside. We had an idea that he was still out there but hadn't had
>positive radio contact until about 0000Z this morning when Capt T.O. Hanford
>had some extra gas so he stayed in his CAP a little longer and tried to reach
>Zulu on the SAR A (PRC-112) freq from the day of the shoot down.
> After about 40 minutes of calls in the blind, T.O. started getting some
>suspect clicks on the mike. Finally, Zulu came up voice. T.O. didn't have
>all the info from Zulu's ISOPREP so he came up with
>a quick way to verify it was indeed Zulu, although it sounded like Zulu
>recognized T.O.'s voice and called him by name (although the comm was weak
>since T.O. (Basher 11) was about 70 miles away). The comm went something
>like this.
>
>"Basher 52 this is Basher 11"
>click
>"Basher 52, this is Basher 11, are you up on this freq"
>"This is Basher 52"
>"Say again, understand this is Basher 52"
>"This is Basher 52...I'm alive"
>"Say again, Basher 52, you are weak and unreadable, this is Basher 11"
>"This is Basher 52!"
>
>pause
>
>"Basher 52, what squadron were you in at Kunsan?"
>"Juvats! Juvats! I'm alive!"
>"Copy that, you're alive! Basher 52, sit tight and come back up at 15 past
>the hour"
>
>T.O. then started coordinating with Magic to pass words to the Deny
>Flight CAOC (command center) that he had positive radio contact with Basher
>52. They replied that T.O. should pass the word "manana" to Basher 52.
> When he did, Zulu replied "I want to get picked up tonight!" (imagine
>that). So T.O. passed that to the CAOC and the decision was made to press
>with a rescue. We were 2 hours before sunrise so it would be daylight but
>there was concern (rightly so) that word would get out to the press and
>every SA-6 in the AOR would be mobile and spiking us and the rest of the
>rescue package. So they went ASAP.
>
>T.O. stayed airborne (now at about the 4 hour point in his sortie -
>one note here: T.O. got high marks for wingman consideration for advising
>his wingman that it was a good time to take a piss on the way to the tanker!
> That video clip probably won't make CNN ) and the 510 FS Buzzards scrambled
>our alert guys (I was #2). Unfortunately, Vaughn "Slot" Littlejohn and I
>had just gone from 60 minute alert to 180 minute alert and I had headed home
>to get some sleep. The phone rang at about 0255L (after about 10 minutes of
>sleep) telling me to get in there ASAP. I was back at the SQ in 15 minutes.
>Before I was even in the door, our ADO, Phil "Psycho" Sever told me we had
>positive radio contact, get dressed, step, crank, and taxi ASAP - I would
>meet SLOT in EOR whenever he made it in. We were in the air at about 0400L
>(1+05 from a dead sleep at home) loaded with 2xGBU-12s, 2 slammers, 2 9Ms, a
>131 pod, and 2 tanks (Standard DF SCL). We swapped out with T.O. manning
>the cap and staying in touch with Zulu every 15 minutes. A SEAD package was
>getting airborne as T.O. started his RTB. We had a plan with the F-18Ds
>(Harm shooters (kind of), with NVGs and a WSO), EFs, and EA-6Bs to try to
>establish contact. But since we already had contact, the F-18s just did a
>recce run to get a good fix on him and to check the weather.
>
>Meanwhile, Zobe the hero, callsign Rock 42, was hanging on Slot's
>wing 70 miles away listening to the whole thing, ensuring my tape was on. I
>can't wait to tell my grandkids about the day I put all my Weapons School
>training to use - "No shit, kids, there I was - tape on, tape off, tape on,
>tape off. The pressure was incredible!" Seriously, although I didn't do
>shit, it was shit hot to listen to the entire mission unfolding. The helos
>were inbound, authenicating Zulu (they asked him what he was called in high
>school when he got drunk!) With a good ID they moved in, had Zulu pop some
>smoke, and picked him up. The whole thing from the authentication to the
>pick-up was about 10 minutes (seemed like an eternity). To hear comm like,
>"Basher 52, got you in sight", was pretty moving, especially after thinking
>for most of the week that Zulu was a mort ("Wilbur" Wright didn't see a
>chute, no radio contact, etc.) I've
>never been choked up in the jet before, but I was this morning.
>
>Unfortunately, they weren't out of danger yet. We hit the tanker
>and when we came back up to Magic freq the helos were about 13 miles from
>feet wet. Then I heard the escort chopper, c/s Bull, say, "Bud, impacts
>underneath you. SAMS IN THE AIR! SAMS IN THE AIR!" FUCK!! Luckily, they
>missed, although they took some small arms fire and apparently the gunner
>from
>Bull silenced that. About 10 minutes later, we heard the call that they were
>
>feet wet, then shortly after that that they had "mother in sight" (the ship),
>two more bits of comm that I will never forget.
>
>So we got one of our own back. What a day. I wish we could have
>done more in the rescue but it was almost entirely a Navy and Marine show
>(we and the mud-eagles were in the cap) and they kicked ass. So don't bad
>mouth the squids and jarheads too loudly - they put on a good act today and
>we've got a Viper driver back because of it.
>
>I thought you might enjoy hearing the story straight from the CSAR
>Commander of VTR Ops! Hope it wasn't too mushy, but after all, I did cry
>when I watched Old Yeller. That's just the emotional type of guy I am!
>Hope all is well with you guys at your various bases. Drop me a line and
>let me know what's up. Fly safe, check six, and pray for the UN leadership
>to get a clue and let us blow these bastards back into the stone age!
>
>Zobe
>
>----- End Included Message -----
>
>
>
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