[Jacquerie]

There’s a Marine down the street, one of a few living ex-Harrier pilots. He said the damn thing had him scared sh!tless on every flight.

[Salvavida]

My roommate at embassy guard school was a Harrier ejection seat technician at Cherry Point. They called the Harriers “Dead Bugs” because when hovering, if one of the two Rolls-Royce engines malfunctions, the plane flips over like a dead bug.