Proabably one of the best experiecnes I ever had in the military was due to an F-111 on an exercise at Woomera Rocket Range. We were assaulting the one of the towers and about 120 soldiers were live firing everything possible at the wooden building in front and the Concrete launch pad when the F-111 popped up on the radio asking for clearance.
Now we were running late and should have been off the target and a few Kms away by then but the boss cleared him for a live drop anyway
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He roared in directly at us which surprised me as we were still firing something like 6 Machine guns and ricochets were going in every direction including vertical.
He then did two passes and dropped two bombs on the other launch pad. before coming in very low over us and then going almost vertical with full afterburner. Everyone felt the heat on our faces he was so close.
So thank you for one of the best memories ever
