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Ok Truman, I can do that....At the Tellico ride one year (the Tennessee 50/75/100)  I was at a gravel crossroads where there was a timer.  I think it was some type of stop and go thing.  Anyway, Jackie Mitchell was there with her truck, me and my Pookie #1- Phillip were waiting out our time to go.  We were sitting on the tailgate of this truck, holding our two horses facing us, on the top of one of those mountain ridges.  When we "see" this black thing fly over at treetop high.  It was black, flat and triangle shaped, and it was close enough that I could literally see the bolts in the bottom of it.   We had just enough time to think, "Oh crap, the zonic boom".  And sure 'nough, it hit.  Those two horses nearly loaded into the back of that truck on top of us  !!!   I found out many years later.....that what we saw was the stealth bombers and that this area was where they flew them during tests.  Oh, it was fun then.

 

Jody

Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a bombing range in the Ocala NF. There used to be an F16 
> squadron at McDill that used this range. On my first 100 - it was a big 
> 50 mile loop. We came on this huge tower in the middle of the woods with 
> a billboard sized platform on top. It had a number painted on it. I was 
> wondering what the heck it was when two F16's came roaring over about 
> three feet over the tree tops in rapid succession. The tower was to 
> direct the pilots to the range as I later found out. How close were them 
> - one pilot had blue eyes the other green ;-) . It startled the dickens 
> out of me. My horse was pretty much overwhelmed and just looked up.
>
> On the second time around - as soon as we got on that section
>  of trail 
> she kept looking around and looking up. I did that ride three times and 
> every time we got to that section of trail she was looking around for 
> the big loud birds.
>
> Somehow looking back these unusual occurrences seem to the ones that 
> stick out in our minds.
>
> Truman
>
> jeanmiller@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ohio. RM did not know that the Nat'l Guard was in the state land doing 
> > manuevers. I can still see Annette and me rounding a corner and 
> > scaring the crap out of a Nat's Guard guy! Our horses spooked, we 
> > screeched, somehow stayed on, I can't remember if a bridle fell off or 
> > not but it runs thru my mind that it did. All day long these guys were 
> > popping out from behind trees, hanging down from trees and the horses 
> > and riders just kept rolling along! Another thing that I remember 
> > about Beamer is that he had terrible legs. The most incredible thing 
> > about that horse was
>  his heart. It was his heart that made him a 
> > winner. But I don't think that his legs were that much of an issue 
> > with lameness either. Did I remember this stuff correctly Laura? I 
> > know you were there for most of it too. Jeanie
>
>
> -- 
>
> ?He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a 
> monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also 
> into you.? Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
>
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