TRAVIS AFB, Calif. – 1st Lt. Mike “Nostradamus” Creek is running a victory lap after having “basically predicted the war going on now” following a Hamas surprise attack on Israel that has killed hundreds of civilians and Israeli security forces. Multiple sources report that as recently as last week, the Lt. briefed the 60th Air Mobility Wing commander that the possibility of some form of violence in the Middle East was “possible.”

“It’s eerie,” said Capt. Tammy Wells, the Wing intel chief, and Creek’s supervisor. “How could he have known that there was a chance that something violent could happen there? I guess he has a gift.”

Creek joined the Wing’s intel section at the beginning of 2023 as an all-source analyst. Even though he was assigned the monotonous duty of maintaining the “Rest of World” slide, the junior officer had a sense “something was up” in the Middle East.

“Yeah, most everyone thinks it’s a quiet corner of the world,” said Creek, “But it was like I had a crystal ball. I just knew something might possibly happen in Israel, or Syria, or Egypt, or Jordan. Is Turkey in the Middle East? Because I had a feeling about that place too.”