I thought this happened in 90  , prior to the war ,

but we were obviously in the Persian Gulf on that date .

They interviewed him on ship's TV .

He mentioned how he couldn't breath . Seems obvious but I didn't think of that until he mentioned it .

Lucky he was tall and got hung up in that intake .

That fireball was his cranial that got ripped off .

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We had a guy get decapitated by an E2 in the Caribbean

and one blown over the side by an S3  - never found .

Dangerous as hell up there .

Flightdeck pay was about the same as our nuke pay . It should have been double .