Mar: A Harry Miles Redemption Story: Harry's War, #2
By Ed Benjamin
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An Iranian fighter jet flies high above the Line of Control, which marks the contested border between Indian and Pakistan. The airplane appears to be in trouble. The pilot seems to have a problem with the craft's flight control surfaces. Smoke trails behind its port engine. Apparetly it does not have the ability to emit any electronic signals and is unable to fire its missiles if required to do so.
An enemy aircraft, smelling blood and sensing an easy combat victory closes in for the easy kill.
Sometimes, appearances can be deceiving.
This story provides a unique look at the Iranian militry.
Ed Benjamin
Ed Benjamin and his bride, Mary Pettit, currently live in Bulverde, Texas, “The Front Porch of the Texas Hill Country.” Every time he drives down the hill next to his property, he is treated to a panoramic view of the Hill Country of Texas. They have lived here 19 years as of July 2018 and love it. Ed’s folks were moving from Oklahoma City to rural Alabama just before he was born. His mother intended for him to be born in her hometown of York, Alabama, but nature intervened, and he became an ‘Okie’ instead. He did get to Alabama seven days later and grew up in Birmingham and York, Alabama. When he was 14, his family moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. After college, he joined the United States Air Force and spent 27 years supervising people who fixed airplanes, establishing technical training programs, and helping procure major weapons systems for the Air Force. After he retired from the Air Force, he started and still operates a one-person business helping companies prepare proposals to get business with the government. He states, “I like to write and am in the mode of experimenting more with self-publishing and putting myself out there in various forms of fiction and nonfiction.” He is the author of “Harry’s War” – a long short story in eBook form available in most eBook venues. Victory in battle and defeat in peace, and these other publications: Mar: A Harry Miles Redemption Story - a story about an Iranian fighter pilot who uses deception to achieve air-to-air combat victories; and “Cash in on the Obama $5 Trillion Spending Plan: How to make large amounts of money by conducting business with or receiving grants from federal, state, and local governments,” a simple, easy-to-understand guide for very small businesses to learn about the various ways to conduct business with federal, state, or local governments. He invites you to visit his website at EdBenjaminBooks.com where he has a blog and you can learn about his pending projects.
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Mar - Ed Benjamin
Final Exam
Mar flew his Iranian Su-27 aircraft over the infamous Kashmir " Line of Control " border separating India and Pakistan. Five weeks previously, the Iranian government had sent Mar to Pakistan to help train Pakistani Air Force pilots. This mission served as the culmination of the training he had provided the Pakistanis.
Now, Mar deliberately flew over the border from Pakistan into Indian air space. He then launched a medium range air-to-air missile toward an aircraft in a flight of four Indian Air Force Su-27s flying five miles away. He realized this action would provoked another in a long list of conflicts, some turning into full-fledged wars, between India and Pakistan.
Mar knew his chance of scoring a hit with the missile stood relatively low, around 35 percent. His purpose had not been to score a hit, but to lure the four-ship flight of Indian aircraft after him. Mar steered his aircraft around into a 180 degree turn and flew back across the border into Pakistani air space.
The Indian flight took the bait and began to pursue Mar crossing the border as he had anticipated. The Indian pilots flew confidently, knowing in recent air-to-air encounters, the Pakistani Air Force F-16 Falcons have suffered losses. If the Indians encountered any F-16s today, they counted on achieving even more victories against the Pakistani aircraft.
As Mar crossed the border, two flights of four Pakistani Air Force F-16 aircraft, began their journey on an intercept path with the Indian Air Force. Each of the F-16 pilots flew their final exam well. Each of them had spent the preceding two months in a unique course Mar conducted. If it had a name, they would have called it Advanced Fighter Tactics.
Mar studied the displays on his radar scope and beamed with satisfaction when he saw the two flights of four F-16 aircraft began to maneuver exactly as he had taught them. If successful, each Pakistani flight would divide the Indian Su-27 aircraft into elements of two airplanes each. Once divided, the F-16s would launch multiple medium range air-to- air missiles and then destroy the majority of the Indian fleet.
Mar had researched the number of conflicts between Pakistan and India, both land and air, over this line of control.
Since he had now engaged the Indian airplanes, history would record this event as the 242nd armed engagement over the line of control,
the border between Indian and Pakistan along the province of Kashmir - - the tensest border in the world.
MAR HAD DRILLED HIS students incessantly, living up to his nickname, Mar
, the Farsi word for snake. During the five weeks Mar had conducted the course, he had lashed out quickly and unpredictably when he felt his Pakistani students’ performance proved substandard.
Years earlier, Iranian crew chiefs involved in maintaining the Iranian Su-27 aircraft had bestowed the nickname on him during his advanced tactical fighter training because