Still Dragging

I don't know what the deal is but everyone is dragging. As I said yesterday, everyone has the look I haven't ever seen before. It is look of being overworked and under stress. We know that this place is "under construction" and the enemy is close but we are just operating on adrenaline or Red Bull. I am watching people just go about their job in the exceptional fashion they usually do but the moment they leave their job, you see them just sag and look as though they just been in a fight. As I watch TV today and see the London attacks I see the eyes of the close victims and recognize that look.

I saw an F-16 takeoff earlier today. It was a normal take-off except that one of his landing gear did not come up. Now normally this problem is not a big deal. But now combine that with the fact that you are flying over some bad guy terrritory and it changes the way things are played out. You can't go too fast because the gear is not made to go very fast. And you can't go too slow because you're an easy target. What's a fighter pilot to do? I know he or she did a great job and I watched the landing without incident. But you hope that someone else on the ground doesn't need that plane. That is that.