The Sq Commander was a great guy. He reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn. He'd make you laugh your arse off.

I don't know if you ever flew in Europe, but they'd use urea as a runway deicer. During a take off roll when you pointed your burner cans to the runway, it would make a 30' high tube of fog/smoke. The Lt Col and I were doing a 20 second trail departure. Lead heads down the runway. At 20 seconds we release brakes and hit the urea cloud so we can't see shite. When lead takes off, the WSO made a courteous "Lead's airborne" radio. My LTC interprets that as "Lead's aborting!" We're still in the urea out of burner and on the brakes HARD expecting to run over lead on the runway. When lead clarifies he's airborne, my LTC says "Cool" THEN PLUGS IT BACK INTO BURNER. HOLY shite, HE'S STILL GONNA TAKE OFF!!!

We used several hundred feet of the overrun before we got airborne. WAAAHOOOO! He was just one of those guys who was always lucky.

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Posted by Jbird

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Posted on 3/11/14 at 1:39 pm to son of arlo

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He reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn. He'd make you laugh your arse off.

The best bosses are the funniest guys in a squadron.

Back in my Avionics days we were TDY at DM in Arizona, one day we are doing radar threat warning checks at EOR, over the radio we hear F-14 has declared an IFE so we move our equipment off a little further. In comes the Tomcat and right off the runway he goes about 40 feet into the scrub, canopy comes up and both guys jump out and scoot away from the jet. We are watching this thing go down, thinking cool they are in one piece. I see the backseater jumping up and down, he proceeds to throw his brain bucket at the pilot and grab him by his harness and start thumping him in the melon. The fire truck is setting there just watching this guy get the shite knocked out of him. Good times indeed.