Sometimes "we" do.
Posted on 02/20/2008 5:12:14 PM PST by RTO
Two fighter jets crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a training mission Wednesday, but the pilots ejected and were later rescued, the Air Force said.
Eglin Air Force Base spokeswoman Shirley Pigott said the pilots were rescued after their single-seat F-15C Eagles disappeared Wednesday afternoon off the Florida Panhandle, about 35 miles south of Tyndall Air Force Base.
The Air Force has not determined if the planes collided. Weather in the area was clear.
Coast Guard Petty Officer James Harless said a Coast Guard rescue jet located one pilot and radioed the location to a fishing vessel, which picked him up. A Coast Guard helicopter then hoisted the pilot off the vessel.
That pilot told rescuers he saw the other pilot also eject, but lost him in the clouds, Harless said. He told them the approximate location for the second pilot, who was found by a Coast Guard helicopter, Harless said.
The conditions of the pilots were not immediately available, he said. They were being taken to Eglin base hospital.
Harless added that no debris from the jets has been found yet.
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How about giving them the benefit of the doubt, since they put their lives on the line for us every day?
Ah, Tyndall. Ah, 1958. Ah, F-100s and B-58s. Ah, Panama City. Ah, America, how I loved thee.
You have to lose at least 3 planes to become president.
The Eagles were from Eglin.
I hope they’re not hot doggers. We had one of those types showing off as he took off from my airport and only about a mile and a half from my house, his plane dive bombed right into a house and killed him and the folks inside (I should say a major-sized fireball, they were all incinerated), and it just barely missed the interstate (where it would’ve killed even more people). If the jerk had banked to the left, it might’ve been me and my house that would’ve ended up a charcoal briquette.
Sometimes "we" do.
A guy who claimed to have shot down 5 planes got elected to Congress - before going to the federal pen.
Thank goodness.
Who are you referring to. Can't be McCain; he's supposed to be an 'ace'. Corpus, Spain, near Philadelphia, friendly fire on the Forrestal (ok, not really your fault when you get shot down while sitting on the deck), and near Hanoi.
I know, but there was a private connection for me between Eglin and Tyndall. I was in awe of some of the big brass we took out fishing in those days. Some of these guys flew with Dolittle and had talked with Patton. As a young AF private these guys were like gods to me.
Those we put in jail.. well first we elect them and then if they take bribes for earmarks, we put 'em in Jail.
Randy "Duke" Cumningham was one of only four US aces of the Vietnam war, only he and Steve Richie of the AF were pilots. The others, Chuck DeBellevue (AF), William Driscoll (Navy) and Jeff Feinstein(AF) were back seaters..
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