Are We In Iran Already? ("Slate" to 'In the Fray')

Of course we were. In 1979 or 1980 we had 100 Grumman built F-14 fighter bombers (then unit patch, "Anytime, baby", became "Make my day" and Grumman trained pilots and grounds people, what 250 crew per pilot, something like that. There were 4000 Grumman employees in a compound over there according to "Newsday"). I was sitting next to the F-14's test pilot on his birthday when the media announced, (his wife invited me over to watch "Ishi - the last Californian Indian" He, Ishi, was anthropologist A.L. Kroeber's friend, whose daughter Ursula K. Le Guin, is a famous woman sci-fi writer. Ishi's brain has recently been "repatriated" removed unknown, it's said, to Kroeber) we would blow up all the planes for the air-to-air technology if the USSR made a move for the Iran border, during the takeover of the U-S Embassy, taken over by the students sick of the Shah's "Savak" secret police operating with impunity here in the U-S, which Henry Kissinger said he could do nothing about. Sure, but you know those planes have been fixed since, in the 1980's I think by Langley, they used to "Top Gun" fall out of the sky sometimes (a Brad Holbrook TV report in Albany, NY), and they sure make some cloud going through the sound barrier (short eyewitness video ship-side) and we're retiring ours the ground "scarecrow" is developing a crack in its wing, as reported. Anyway you bet we're in Iran already!