Any Military Members?

[joosrsx]

Great stories sir.

I agree that protecting the buff was your best mission (I'm a buff nav if you didn't catch that earlier).

No matter how many times I hear about these missions I can't believe how f'ing crazy you guys were. Waiting for an SA2 to launch on you, visually looking for that flying telephone pole flying at you, and then pulling a 6g maneuver to get away.
What type of missile was it that "hit" your aircraft? Was it a 2 also?

I know this is nothing like what you did, but back at undergrad nav school we had some sims where we had RWR gear and did our normal TOT missions but had to call out maneuvers for threats. It was fun doing a lot of the mission on the fly cause you were off the black-line and then all the other stuff that came with this new challenge along with all the other ones. Now I have an EWO that does as the EA/EP and makes the calls.


Sir, I can't tell you how much I respect the job you did at the time you did it

[Frank Patrick]

Drafted- the only lottery I ever won ! Two tours, compiments of Uncle. Could have done with-out the 2nd tour, but it kept my younger brother, who was also drafted (State side).
I still remeber reporting for my physical- I had broken my collar bone (baseball) my senior year. My Mom, who really did not want me going to Viet Nam, told me to remind them of this injury and it will surely keep me out. Those of you who were inducted know the mechanical process of Army physicals. At each and every station I would bring up my broken collar bone, no one was really interested, and simply told me to move on to the next station. Finally at the last station an older Sargent seemed interested when I told him my collar bone story and said-"Which one?", and ran his finger along it, saying "I can feel the notch"; thinking I'm all set now- he turned and said-"Yeap, an M-16 will fit nicely there". And off I went.