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From: wfsc4.tamu.edu!hmueller@cs.utexas.edu (Hal Mueller)
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Subject: Re: Friendly Fire
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Date: 27 Jun 90 02:09:48 GMT
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From: wfsc4.tamu.edu!hmueller@cs.utexas.edu (Hal Mueller)


A Navy Fire Controlman (FC's do guided missiles) I worked with told
me this story:

He was stationed on a carrier in the days when it had a Terrier SAM.
The mount was at the edge of and just below the flight deck.  One day
someone parked an F-4 too close to the edge, and when the missile
crew brought their test round onto the launcher rail, the missile
went through the plane's tail.

He says the Air Boss really lost his temper when the missile crew
painted an F-4 silhouette on the mount.

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Hal Mueller            hmueller@cssun.tamu.edu          n270ca@tamunix (Bitnet)
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science
Research Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843