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RE: How is this for an exciting moment - 9/18/2004 2:13:35 AM

Desertdaddy

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ORIGINAL: tanker4145

After about 5 minutes it quit smoking and we waited another hour and got back to work, so that could explain the smoke, but just a guess.

I have to ask, who was the lucky fellow that walked up first and said everything was ok?

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RE: How is this for an exciting moment - 9/18/2004 10:00:04 AM

ATCSMike

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ORIGINAL: Xargun

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ORIGINAL: RevRick

A friend of mine sent me this one. I had to pass it on.

I must assume thats a live missile laying on the flight deck.... Did the pilot fire it ?

Xargun

I doubt it. There is no smoke trail coming off the missile. Looks like when the F18 caught the wire, the missile shackel broke/came loose and it just kept going after the plane stopped.

Mike

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RE: Nope, it's not laying on the deck. - 9/18/2004 10:02:53 AM

ATCSMike

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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Isn't that how Forrestal went up?

A ZUNI rocket set the Forrestal ablaze, I believe. I had to watch the film when I reported to my ship.

Here's a link: http://www.forrestal.org/fidfacts/page13.htm

Mike

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RE: How is this for an exciting moment - 9/19/2004 6:13:31 AM

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My maintenance NCO (SFC/E-7) who was in charge of the detail went up to it. He is the finest NCO I've had the privelege to serve with. I was trying to call some engineers to check it out, but before I know it, he'd loaded it himself. This happened twice I think. Of course, we also had 2 grenades thrown over the walls which is very scary when you're living next to live ammo. Luckily, two guys only caught tiny pieces of shrapnel and were returned to duty. It took us about a month for our tank company to clear that place out.

We were living in a potato factory that had been taken over by the republican guard and turned into a weapon, ammo, clothing, and equipment storage place. There was an amazing selection of weapons. AK's in every flavor, Draganov's, RPKs, various SKS's, some enfields, M1's, 1903's, RPGs, mines, grenades, mortars, rockets, a weapon lovers dream. We had many an SF/SEAL, heck even an SAS team stop by once they heard about it. They'd take what they want and usually give us something cool in return--not that they had to, just being nice. The British rations were a nice change of pace for us for a day or so.

Alright, time to get off my war story soap box.

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