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Photo – Barry Galloway, Aviation Geek Club

When I was a young, green, brand new pinned-on Captain, flying combat rescue HH-3Es out of Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, a ‘friendly fire’ incident occurred in early 1990 with base aircraft.
An F-15 being ferried to a forward operating alert base at Galina was carrying a live AIM-9 Sidewinder missile, and launched it on another Elmendorf F-15 during an exercise enroute.

“Snow has fallen on the mountains you dreamed of.” This Turkish saying describes a situation where something that was long hoped for or dreamed of has finally become reality, but it comes with unexpected challenges, risks, or disappointments. And this seems to be the situation in front of Turkey after Syrian rebel forces put an end to the 50-year-long Assad regime.