Just a few from the two day trip to the annual NATO Fresian Flag exercise at the Dutch base at Leeuwarden where brass monkeys made repeated requests for soldering irons. Some 60 jets from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, the UK, and the Air National Guards of California & Massachusetts participated this year, plus a few support transports and ECM providers.
And you even got a wave from some. The pilot of J-871 must have known that his was the only Dutch F16 I needed.
And for those old enough to remember the Colegate Ring of Confidence advert -