[Centurion2000]

Stricklin has been reassigned to a desk job in the Pentagon, although Air Force officials insisted he was not being punished for the incident.

He's not being punished ... he screwed up royally.

[PokeyJoe]

Stricklin has been reassigned to a desk job in the Pentagon, although Air Force officials insisted he was not being punished for the incident.

One lucky sum bit - but it's not the first time. I remember same thing happening to an F-18 at an air show at MCAS El Toro, and an F-22 Raptor cushioned on the runway not too long ago as well. Frankly, I would make him to TAD with the Navy landing ont he deck of an aircraft carrier. ALl he needed was a tailhook and he would have caught #3.