Originally Posted by
Ron Cake
In the banter about AEO's who reached high rank you introduced the name of a two star who, in the mid 70's, was done for 'cottageing'. He was, in fact, a pilot and not an AEO. ...thought I'd mention it.
Thank you, I know he was very hands on and wrote on a staff paper when he was OC at SM "What about the straffing Backfire". I then had to convince my staish that the Backfire was unlikely to strafe and that its best weapon against the MPA was a 500 kg retard stick right down the flight line. My staish then made me contact Strike to confirm which they kindly did,
But I don't think they had the option to remain in the GD branch after one tour.
Apart from the loss of flying pay the Eng I knew was quite happy to hang up his helmet and work in an office with windows.