RAAF Base Laverton in the early 80s'. A bunch of civvy contractors working on RAAF Macchis are getting their annual ejection seat lecture from an NCO armourer.
The Sergeant finishes his lecture and then states that there are heaps of stories about ejection seats going off inadvertently etc. He regales us with a story,amongst others, about a civvy who was supposed to have got a drogue pin through his shoulder...... complete with attached cords. Load of b*****s he says, if that had happened the bloke would have been cactus..
The civvies start to snigger. When asked why they are laughing one of the civvies takes off his shirt and shows him the scars where the drogue pin did indeed pass through his body and of course how he had indeed survived.
I last saw Brian a couple of years back and he was still walking about although, like the rest of us who were there, he is getting on a bit.