[Tennessee_Bob]

Say, ever hear of that munitions guy that fired off a round when trying to clear a jam. . .on the ramp at Bentwaters?

Never heard of that one - but wouldn't be surprised. I remember an incident at one of the eastern bases when they did an engine swap on a 16. The young female mechanic that signed off on the installation and rigging of the throttle hadn't done what she was supposed to do - she attached the throttle rig, but didn't have the fuel control locked into shutoff - it was in full augmentor instead - and her boyfriend the nine-level signed off on the job without checking the rigging. Another troop climbs into the cockpit, and fires it up for the ground run, the aircraft starts, rolls immediately into full burner, and screams off across the parking ramp, and taxiway and into the dirt. Every mechanic in the force hobbed hell for that one - had to do three inspections before it left the shop to insure that we had locked the fuel control into cutoff.

[Gunrunner2]

Good Lord. . .what a story.

The munitions incident had to do with unauthorized tool being used to pull back some firring pin type of thing to clear a 30MM jam and the tool either broke or slipped, striking the round and the round torched off, hitting the ground about 700 feet in front of the barrel and ending up striking an SP bunker.