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Originally Posted by rcecale
I was a Final Checker in my Hornet gun squadron. Night ops on the flight deck of a carrier were my favorite (Yeah,maybe I'm a little strange...  ). But the adrenaline rush, and the constant need to be 100% aware of your immediate surroundings really kept the blood flowing. The steamier the cats were, the better!
Randy |
We had an airman back into a C2 prop while it was warming up during night OPs. With all of the launch and recovery noise and movement he didn’t hear it and obviously had a lapse in awareness. Nothing much left above the waist. Would have been so quick, immediate lights out. I had buddies in Crash and Salvage that had to do the FOD walk down after that and I had an outboard antenna right off the catwalk that I had to wash off. They parked and roped off the C2 in the hangar Bay until we got back in port. Couldn’t touch it until the investigation was completed.