Avon Park hugely busy lately
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Something is definitely going on at Avon Park. . .some exercise or prep
for deployment. It has been one of the busiest three-day periods I have
every heard at Avon. Multiple FACs (JTACs) on the ground, and many many
A-10s and F-16s; tankers too of course. They have been starting early
in the morning and continuing until midnight, with no letup. Comms are
wonderful: air-ground FACs, air-air, MisReps, AAR. . . the whole gamut.
Seems like multiple ASOS units involved too.

I am pretty sure, but not certain that the A-10s are MI-ANG birds; the
callsign and freqs suggest it, but I am still trying to confirm.

Here's your scorecard to follow the action:

ACFT
Akula F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Backy KC-135 (Seymour Johnson AFB)
Battle A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Cannon A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Chief F-15E (Seymour Johnson AFB)
First F-15 (Langley): RTB Homestead.
Hog A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Kanza KC-135 (McConnell AFB)
Mace F-16CJ (SC-ANG, McEntire ANGS)
Mako F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Shark F-16 (Homestead ARB)
Spad F-16s (RTB MacDill)
Spooky AC-130U (Hurlburt)
Sten A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Tusker A-10 (MI-ANG?; RTB MacDill)
Viper F-16

JTACs (FACs)
Bulldog
Crowbar
Gamma Ray
Iron Cross
Sabre
Stryker 22, 26
Uniform 01
Whiskey 99

Freqs:
125.125 MACE Air-air.
126.525 Miami Ctr (MacDill RTBs)
127.200 Miami Ctr.
138.050 Air-air.
138.125 MAKO Air-air.
139.800 SHARK Air-air.
140.075 Air-air.
140.200 Air-air.
141.450 Air-air.
141.900 AKULA Air-air.
142.600 Air-air.
143.625 STEN Air-air.
238.900 BACKY AARs Boom
256.300 CHIEF, SPOOKY w Battle 65 (FAC-A)
257.100 CANNONs w Crowbar (MisReps).
264.625 Avon; SPADs w Uniform 01.
273.550 Jax Ctr (CHIEFs RTB to Seymour Johnson).
278.325 IDd by SPAD 35 as "North Primary."
281.200 CANNONs & HOGs w Sabre; TUSKERs w Stryker & Bulldog; MACEs w
Bulldog.
285.500 Miami Ctr (Homestead RTBs).
285.725 Avon; JTAC Iron Cross.
292.200 Avon Park Bombing Range; TUSKERs w Stryker.
293.225 Miami Ctr.
300.125 CHIEFs Air-air.
307.000 Orlando Appr (to/fr MacDill)
311.000 MacDill Lightning Ops.
317.400 Palm Beach Appr (Homestead RTBs)
319.000 Miami Ctr.
323.100 Miami Ctr.
346.250 Jax Ctr (CHIEFs RTB to Seymour Johnson).
349.000 Miami Ctr.

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