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Old 21st Jul 2004, 23:13
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FJJP
 
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Escape, you really have set out your credentials in your profile - we can only guess at what's behind your indignant rant.

Me? 38 years of RAF driving including several wars. You're right in saying that we don't relish killing people - it does not rest easy on the conscience, but most of us accept that it is what we were/are paid to do. Ever sit on 'Q' with a megaton bucket of sunshine nestling in the bombay? [Also knowing that there would be no-one in you family to come back to?].

The point of this thread is that fellow professionals are taking the p*ss big time out of a bunch of pillocks flying a well equiped jet who got it mightily wrong when it counted.

I remember one Brit bombing comp where a Buff crew dropped their radar bomb in the wrong county! And the dumb co-pilot saw the target slide past his starboard wingtip and said diddly-squat. Next day (Saturday) the crew were ordered by CinCSAC to refly the route and return to the States - and God could not help them if they did not return home with perfect scores!

Most of us have screwed up small or big time at some point in our careers - it's just that most of us did it out of sight of a mass gathering of the media and general public...
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