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Originally Posted by F16 1UB
You start this how????????????? :dontknow: :dontknow: :dontknow:
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Reminds me of what I remember to be a true story, tho I was drinking a bit in those days. Can't swear to it.
1969 I was enlisted at Sheppard AFB in Tech School. Before our particular school started, we had duty where we did all types of grunt work around the base --- cheap labor and kept us busy. We were cleaning up around a hangar one day. One of our brighter coworkers jumped into the open cockpit of a trainer and started playing fighter pilot. Evidently the ejection system was still armed and the young man hit the wrong switch. Whoosh, the seat (and airman) went flying straight up through the roof. Some NCO came in screaming, hustled our fannies out of their, and marched us back to our barracks. Rumors flew higher and faster than an F-4D. Of course, no one knew exactly who the guy was -- always in another unit -- but he was dead, had been decapitated, was unharmed but court-martialed, badly maimed in the hospital, etc. etc. etc. Who knows the truth, but it was a good story for the cold Wichita Falls winter.
