BTW,
Side note. I looked back on my entries and then looked up the incident in Galena and found they were saying it was a Falcon that went down into the Yukon. I didn’t catch it on my patch and paste. It wasn’t. It was definitely a fully loaded strike eagle that had been sent out for a bogie and was coming back by way of a stop at Elmendorf before return to King Salmon. He hit the water about a third across the river and that’s where the aircraft started to disintegrate.
The Yukon is an eleven knot current so pieces were scattered for couple of miles downriver. It took a few weeks to salvage most of the aircraft but when I left in early August, they had decided to leave the rest at the bottom and wait for the water to recede getting closer to freeze over. There was ammo and pieces all over the place down there. But at 160 feet of water and that current bringing stuff at them like trees, even EOD, who I think are crazy, said it wasn’t worth it. We were using my boat with the sonar up river to know when an object was coming at them so they could get to the bottom. I wouldn’t have gone down there and get hit by something like a locomotive.
rwood
Interesting - it is always a shame when a “zipper suited sun gawd” makes the final fight to the Golden Gates of Heaven.
I hear a fighter pilot entered heaven and saw a guy wearing a flight suite, carrying a flight helmet and wearing dark aviator sunshades and the biggest wristwatch ever seen.
The fighter pilot asked: “who is that guy.”
St Peter said, “oh, him, that’s God, he only wishes he was a fighter pilot”
Interesting, the “Falcon” is the F-16, whereas the F-15E is the “Strike Eagle,”. Basic F-15 is the Eagle.
No worries, mishaps are always confusing.
Good assistance helping. The honorable thing to do, good job.