Randy Haskins EAA Interview - June 15

Saville · **Joined:** Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:45 am **Posts:** 519

WIX's very own Randy Haskins gives a scintillating interview on an EAA Video dated June 15:

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=994525114001

67N20 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:17 pm

Thanks for posting this, and Randy, thanks for your service.

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:33 pm

I bet if you tied his hands behind his back he wouldn't have been able to tell the story.....

...good on ya, bro!

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:04 pm

great story by a real hero. Randy you should grow a mustache. :lol:

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:47 pm

Impressive! Well done, Randy and flight. :drink3:

--Tom

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:52 pm

Well, F-15Es are OK if you couldn't get P-3s.......right Brad :shock:

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:19 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Well, F-15Es are OK if you couldn't get P-3s.......right Brad :shock:

Yeah, but here's the difference, Jack....my brother can use both hands to simulate a dogfight when he's explaining....whereas WE have to use BOTH hands just to simulate the P-3 chasing a submarine.

(or rather, a per-diem check....)

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:20 pm

muddyboots wrote:

great story by a real hero. Randy you should grow a mustache. :lol:

I think I have a picture of him in his 'deployment stache' from his first tour over in Iraq. And yeah, it looks just as bad as my deployment stache from the Gulf. But they're supposed to, right?

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:29 pm

Speedy wrote:

Jack Cook wrote:

Well, F-15Es are OK if you couldn't get P-3s.......right Brad :shock:

Yeah, but here's the difference, Jack....my brother can use both hands to simulate a dogfight when he's explaining....whereas WE have to use BOTH hands just to simulate the P-3 chasing a submarine.

quote]

I'd ask what you P-3 guys are using to simulate the "submarine" but I'm afraid what the answer would be! :lol:

--Tom

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:55 pm

Sasquatch wrote:

Speedy wrote:

Jack Cook wrote:

Well, F-15Es are OK if you couldn't get P-3s.......right Brad :shock:

Yeah, but here's the difference, Jack....my brother can use both hands to simulate a dogfight when he's explaining....whereas WE have to use BOTH hands just to simulate the P-3 chasing a submarine.

quote]

I'd ask what you P-3 guys are using to simulate the "submarine" but I'm afraid what the answer would be! :lol:

--Tom

Touche' my friend....

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:17 pm

Quote:

whereas WE have to use BOTH hands just to simulate the P-3 chasing a submarine.

I think that's a pilot thing :shock:

I just made a lot of jestures towards the front of the airplane and took naps

Zachary · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:28 pm

I didn't post it here for fear of embarrassing Randy, but who am I kidding, fighter pilots don't embarrass...

tex-fan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:30 am

WOW!! that clip me proud to be an American. and thank God we have a bunch more guys out there just like Randy. God bless you Randy, and all your team mates.

Shay · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:51 am

Great interview Randy.

Shay
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Semper Fortis

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:14 pm

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I was honored and humbled that Zach invited me to be interviewed for the EAA project, especially considering the company I was in sitting in front of that camera. I don't in any way feel that anything I've done can match what so many of those interviewed have done during their military service. My hat is truly off to those guys -- their stories are much more amazing.

Never expected to see it posted on the 'net, though. You're right, Z, not embarassed...although I regret not going back to my notes beforehand and reading up on that one day so I could have remembered the callsigns and other details. It's amazing that so much of missions like that stick out in my mind clear as if I had just done it yesterday (like what it looked like, or how I felt), yet I couldn't tell you what the date or day of that particular mission was just by memory. When I get a chance, I'll go dig through my journal and get the notes I wrote after that sortie and post 'em here.

I am remiss that in that interview I never mentioned my WSO on that day of the story I told, Capt Matt 'RAID' Chapman, who was as equal a partner in saving those guys on the ground as I was. It's a team effort out there. RAID is just about to leave the USAF in the next few days for his next venture in law school...and if he's ever in private practice, he's the one I'm going to hire when I need legal help!! Good luck to him, although I'm sure he doesn't need it.

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