9-sept-2018 - COWBOY 1 OCA Name A/A A/G Status #1 Poppy 2 3 RTB #2 Zipgun 2 3 RTB #3 Utopic 2 1 RTB #4 Fisty 1 1 RS
Ingress as fragged on a beautiful dusk mission. After weapons deployment we held a N/S + E/W CAP supporting the weapons for 7 minutes. After the weapons hit and monitoring several benign CAPing Su-27's we (in hingsight) held the CAP for too long and invited three groups from the south to our AO. RTB call was made but element was committed. We played out the last engagement and RTB'd. Staying too long in the AO cost us 1 jet and Fisty got a chopper ride home. Overall very good mission (and fun!). A little more discipline (RTB when the job is done) and we could have a 4-ship coming home.