Originally Posted by
Ewan Whosearmy
USAF F-15 and F-16 starting 2002 and ending 2015.
USN F/A-18 2010 (once only, hence my willingness to stand corrected).
The Air Force doesn't use 'Eject' because it doesn't want confusion on the ground when 'Egress' is called. I believe they moved that model in the 1980s when an F-4 A/C called "Egress!" during a ground emergency, but the back seater heard "Eject" and pulled the handles. Sadly, the pilot had already started to unstrap and did not survive the ejection.
Interesting perspective. My first brief on that was in 1978, in a T-2.
The brief was that if after I heard the third "eject" I was still in the aircraft, I was late already.