General Robert Worley: Shot down in an RF-4C (call-sign "Strobe 01") in 1968.

[DemoTex]

Another chapter in my book. It got much better tonight. I got the 411 from a retired USAF Brigadier General. Worley was the C/O of the entire 7th AF in SE Asia .. we knew that. He did a sneak combat mission for the Air Medal .. we know that. He got shot down. Actually, he went "feet wet" over the South China Sea, where his back-seater (a USAF major) punched out.

Misty fast-fac (F-100) Dick Rutan (remember his round-the-world flight?) joined up on Strobe 01. He watched the back-seater punch-out. Then he followed the RF-4C as it plunged into the South China Sea with a USAF general officer at the stick in the front office.

My premise is now that Worley committed suicide by staying in that RF-4C. He was an errant general officer! Almost shot down where he could have been captured and compromised! What a phenomenal phuck-up!

[navarth]

1. there's just one thing I don't understand

and that one this is

about 90% of everything you say.

but it sounds damn interesting!!! makes me wish I was up on military jargon.

oh well...

[Hardrada]

2. Were you in the service yourself at that time?

I am missing some threads of your own narrative.

[DemoTex]

3. Yes. I was in flight school.

I later went to Viet Nam and flew a bunch of air combat missions. I think some of my stories are chronicled in my DU Journals.