Re: Boylan's biography of Col. Wilson
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 07:27:35 -0800
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Re: http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1997/dec/d20-001.shtml
Original Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 21:25:37 -0800
To: campbell@ufomind.com
From: Randy [withheld]
Subject: More Steve Wilson
I don't get to visit your site as much as I used to, as I'm preparing to
head off to USAF pilot training this spring. I did, however, read Mr
Boylan's detailed bio of Steve Wilson, and had a few short comments:
>this tall 13-year-old was accepted into the Air Force
1. As you know, there was no Air Force until 1947.
>He graduated from Mustang
>propeller fighters to sleek Sabre jets, and was soon doing supersonic runs
>down MIG Alley, dueling Communist jet pilots.
2. The F-86 Sabre is not supersonic.
>On one run into enemy territory to bomb a dam, Lt. Wilson dropped his
>load of bombs and watched the dam burst
3. A "load of bombs" on an F-86 consists of two 250 lb bombs. How many
dams "burst" after being hit with that kind of ordnance?
>He banked 180 degrees, and came in low
So, Mr Boylan, you're saying he rolled inverted?? :)
>He spotted a clearing with enough room to land,
>and set his plane down
Not too many "clearings" in Korea where yo could just drop in with an F-86.
Most of Korea is very dense forests situated on sharply-peaked hills and
valleys.
>threw the radio gear out to make room for him and me. With me sitting on his
>lap, I taxied out and to the end of the clearing
Again, not really possible to just "throw" out enough radio gear to make
room for another person! If the gear were setting in the cockpit that
loosely, how do you think that would hold up during the aerobatics of a
dogfight?!
>Nuckolls rolled over on his back, and you could
>hear his leather jacket pull loose from the frozen ground.
So, after being a POW, he still had his leather flying jacket?! LAst time
I checked, that would have ended up some Korean Officer's trophy and the
POWs would have been wearing some ugly ratty pajamas....
>By now Steve Wilson had been promoted to Air Force Captain, and
>Commander of a Tactical Fighter Squadron out of Wright-Patterson AF Base,
Ohio.
I would certainly hope that an officer commissioned in the 50s would have
been promoted to Captain by 1960!! (it usually takes 4 years to go from 2Lt
to Captain!). Also, there's no WAY that a O-3 would EVER be a TFS
"Commander"! Not then, not now.
>After returning to Wright-Patterson AFB, Wilson was informed he was
>receiving Top Secret clearance, and was being commissioned as a Major.
Any officer in a flying position which would allow him to be exposed to war
plans and emergency war orders would have already had a TS clearance long
before. I think you'll find that 90% of pilots have such a clearance. If
MJ-12 existed, it's classification level would have been SO FAR ABOVE TS
that someone with a TS trying to gain access would have just been laughed at.
>As part of his duties,
>he would be assigned to the 1st Special Forces Air Command, and would undergo
>special training with Delta Force and then the Black Berets
I'm not sure what year Delta was established, but due to it's
anti-terrorist mission, I doubt it was active in the early 60s.....The 60s
weren't that active in terrorism as we know it now...
>receiving a Ultra Top
>Secret, Cosmic Q, level-27 security clearance
This sounds like it came out of a Flash Gordon comic. Then again, maybe
it's just such a high clearance that nobody's ever heard of it....
> At retirement,
>after 40 years in the Air Force, Lt. Colonel Wilson was Flight Commander of
>the First Special Forces Air Command, Vandenburg Air Force Base.
As I wrote before, it's impossible to spend 40 years in the USAF. The TOP
limit for service is 30 years, and that is ONLY waived for people like the
Chief Of Staff and other 4-star generals....definitely NOT for O-5s! In
addition, few Colonels are "Flight Commanders". Flight commander is a
Captain or Major's job; Squadron Commander is a Lt Colonel job.
So, after reading this bio, I'm left wondering...what happened to his "Ace"
status mentioned in his self-authored bio from earlier? What about his
"Air Medal of Honor"? What about his self-proclaimed participation in the
Gulf War?
So sad that the world has lost such a "Warrior", eh?
Randy
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