The Skies over Baghdad have been illuminated

An iconic symbol of the early 90s Gulf War was retired recently. As a military buff who grew up around the early gulf War this was a plane that captured my imagination during the first Gulf War. I remember those early days of the Gulf War where AAA and SAMs lighting up the sky and the stealths flew into Baghad and dropped bombs without a single loss.

It’s just a plane really but it was a piece of my life and a part of why I thought the airforce was so cool for the longest time. I still have a tremendous interest in warplanes and only lost interest in serving in the airforce when i discovered that to fly a combat plane you need to have natural 20/20 vision.