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To: cornfedcowboy

Still remember an F-5 with the afterburners lit

coming over us about that low.We all jumped when

we saw it,again about 10 seconds later from the sound.

Forgave him tho,he saved our butts with his napalm.


14 posted on 07/06/2014 6:26:02 PM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: Harold Shea; All
But if you're gonna do it low and slow..no better place than over 50,000+ at a football game..

2009 Georgia Tech/Wake Forest, Atlanta Two Navy pilots..both GaTech grads...cut it a leeetle too close...and two careers were over in 10 seconds..

15 posted on 07/06/2014 6:42:59 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Harold Shea

I had a buddy who was a Khe Sanh. He said they were getting CAS from a Phantom which finally ran out of gun ammo and bombs. The NVA were up near the top of 881N, so the Phantom comes in low, pulls up at the last second and hit full afterburner as he passed over the NVA, trying to make ‘crispy-critters’.

Another buddy saw a VC patrol diddy-boppin down a paddy dike. Phantom returning from up north made one pass and ran out of 20mm during the run. The VC figured out what had happened, got up and continued to saunter down the dike. This series of paddies was at least a klick wide.

The frustrated Phantom driver circled for a bit then came roaring down the paddy at about 6 foot altitude, trying to run them down. He didn’t succeed, but probably managed to change the color of their black pajama bottoms.


16 posted on 07/06/2014 6:55:57 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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