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By: Bob "Schwartz" Waldmiller, SUPREME ALLIED AIR COMMANDER, PROJECT POLICE TACTICAL ASSAULT FORCE

Originally published March 1997

- It took some real forethought and planning on my part to come up with the Ops plan for Rubidoux Sundown V. A couple of minutes later. I had synthesized a detailed Air Tasking Order and proclaimed the incredibly complex attack procedures to all participating Project Police members: "Let's get there by noon."

- Stealing the idea from Independence Day 4, your ever resourceful Project Police Strike Director coordinated a precision aerial strike from numerous airports simultaneously using GPS for accurate nano-second timing. Split second timing was required to ensure mission success. The results were nothing short of phenomenal as all the PPTAF (Project Police Tactical Assault Force) aerial assault vehicles arrived the same...day!

- At times, however, poor GPS coverage in the Supreme Allied Commander's aircraft meant finding an alternate navigation source. We switched on the high resolution map mode on the multi-mode radar installed in the nose cone of the FC-140 Fighting Cherokee. WSO's generally don't like to use the radar much because they usually get sick watching the picture rotate at 2600 RPM!

- Details, details, details...There was so much to do and so little time to think. Operation Rubidoux Sundown is one of our biggest events and every year it gets better. Just to be certain we'd remember how to do this again however, I took the EAA Chapter 1000 Newsletter Editor (pictured here in the center, flanked by two anonymous Project Police behemoths) along with me to accurately record the facts of the Raid on Rubidoux as we made them up.

- I'm still working on the 50 mission crush in my hat. Only 35 missions and 12 boxtops to go. Project Police member Erb is shown modeling the Desert Storm brigade Project Police Fedora, while P⁴ (Project Police and President Pelletier) intimidates the locals with his ATF-lookin' black ballistic cap. (Nice going! Now everyone knows who the anymouse (sic) members are!! Security Breach!! --ed)

- There is no telling who you're going to run into during a Project Police raid. Rubidoux Sundown V was no different. Even if we know the victim(s), the Project Police never let mere friendship stand in the way of an impartial, thorough, and relentless raid, especially if there are homemade chocolate chip cookies involved.

- Cleverly disguised as ATF agents, complete with black shirts with "PPTAF" emblazoned in foot-high letters on the back (yes, some of the more gullible passers-by bought this one!) we perused the phlight line and watched the unsuspecting Chapter 1 members pontificate to their less phortunate phellows. There were signs around the battleground which seemed to indicate a minor resistance to our raid, but they were of little consequence. We acknowledged the fact that they could spell Project Police two out of three times, but the Project Police do not recognize the international prohibited symbol, since it is a well known fact that no one can tell the Project Police what to do. It's that omniscient thing again.

- Again taking our cue from General Schwartzwaldmiller, the victorious Project Police set up a tent at the last battle line so that terms of surrender could be dictated to the defeated imperious leader of EAA Fiefdom 1, the infamous Jan "the Hammer" Johnson. All due attention was paid to protocol, yet the defeated forces still showed signs of defiance as documented in the photograph below. This was not apparent until after the raiders had gone home victorious. Will this defiance stand??? I think not. Get ready for Rubidoux Sundown VI.......hahahahahaha!

WE WILL PILLAGE AND PLUNDER YET AGAIN.....