Chattanooga Armed Forces Day Parade Using British Planes?

I went to the AFD Parade and there was a group of Brits standing in the crowd behind me. Has Cheney outsourced our nation's defence too? I smell a conspiracy.

The mountains in the travel brochure for Chattanooga (or maybe it was Tennessee) last year were actually photos of Hawaii. The travel board went on record as saying that they knew the photos were of Hawaii but they had such a short time to put the brochure together. . . um, o.k.

This print 'design' companies website give me a feeling they hired a twelve year old (an untalented one) to create these posters.

Unless those Brits at the parade were in uniform, I wouldn't read anything into it other than a coincidence.

"The Air Force will be honored this year as each branch of service takes its turn in rotation." If the organizers wanted to honor our British allies, that's fine, but they did an extremely poor job of communicating that idea. Why not have the US flag and the British flag side by side incorporated into the design?

More than likely, whoever "designed" the billboard simply didn't do any research into what they were doing and chose that particular photo simply because the jets were using red, white and blue smoke. Never mind the fact that the UK, France, Russia, Australia, the Czech Republic, Panama and several other nations use those same colors in their flags. Nor did they think that it might be possible for the air forces of other nations to have their own flight demo teams. It's just sloppy on so many levels.

I'm real curious as to how the organizers get linked up with Sky9 in the first place.

The Brits do have their own flight demo team, and I hear they're pretty good: http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/

... and as I look at the Red Arrows multimedia gallery, it pretty much proves that the planes in the Chattanooga photos are Britian's Red Arrows, not either the Blue Angles or the Thunderbirds: http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/multimedia/redarrowsgallery.cfm?viewmedia=21