[topher]

You posted:

As another poster mentioned, the F-102, was designed for "Continental Air Defence', hence the likely hood of V-N being in the rotation was slim. Ya ya ya - a few - tiny number went overseas.

I would agree with that.

However, flying jets has a hazard -- they sometimes crash.

How often do we read of a military jet or helicopter crashing with everyone killed -- normally many times a year.

If you get some bozo in your platoon/squad who is very inept, you might get shot or blown up.

For example, in the Clint Eastwood Heartbreak Ridge that was a foulup in the Recon Platoon that almost killed that football major that Clint Eastwood referred to as a cluster F***.

Screwups in the military with weapsons can kill you.

But if you fly jets, you might get killed by a bad mechanic...

[investigateworld]

That's true, but the F-102 was a very safe plane - unless you wanted to play 'dog fighter'.

Of course this is from a docent at the Evergreen Air Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon, who stated he had x,xxxx hours behind the stick of it and it's descendant the F-1xx.

Of course, I cut the National Guard boy no slack, he's trying to destroy my Nation.