[doorgunner69]

Quite a few of the F-4 pilots I worked with started out as enlisted Marines and went on to OCS and flight school. They were the best, related to all of us sweaty ordnancemen. They probably knew that it could have been them out there in the weeds, and that mindset is what makes Marine air support so unique and wildly unlike the AF concept of anitseptic smart bombing.

Later on when flying helos, I still recall being scared shiiteless thinking an A-4 pilot was going to pancake in he pulled out so low on a bomb run. The bottom of his pullout could not have been more than a couple hundred feet above ground.

[NTHockey]

I served with Marines who were in Korea. Their major complaint about CAS was the AD Skyraiders would come back with telephone wires wrapped around the wings or the windshields were caked with mud.

[stanne]

Talk to door gunner post 11