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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Out of curiousity, when did we start sending Air Force pilots to Top Gun? It's the Navy Fighter Weapons School. Was Major Schmidt a Naval Avaitor before joining the Air National Guard?
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I thought that too until I saw his Bio.... it did mention something about him being the first (or one of) Air Force personel to qualify/go to Top Gun (sorry it was a while ago that I saw the report). I admit it did throw me off seeing that..... thought for a second that someone had screwed up in their research
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It is old news, but I believe in 1813, we were at WAR with England. I also don't believe Canada was a soverign nation then, was it? So, did we attack Canada -- or a part of the British Empire? Kind of a major difference in my mind.
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Yes it was a war between the US and the British Empire... however the only feasible target was then the Canada colonies: Upper and Lower Canada (Ontario and Quebec).
Incidentally you guys came damn close to a major war with the British, not just battles bewteen the US and the British garrison and Canadian militia. Following the end of the Pennisula Campaign against Napoleon the British Parliment asked Wellington to organize an army taken from the Pennisula veterans and take them to North America... only thing was Wellington said he was tired of war and death and declined; support fizzled out and only an comparatively minor (about a 10th the size) assault force was sent - they guys who attacked Washington DC and New Orleans.