Not Today, Satan! Shortly after Squire’s crash, our squadron got tasked with providing a test pilot - a post-maintenance functional check pilot - to go to MCAS Yuma, AZ, for the upcoming Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course. Given staffing at the squadron...
Note: Prior pieces in this series can be found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7, AMST 8, AMST 9, AMST 10] I. An Alpha, Omega, and Alpha… Ron "Wiggy" Walkerwicz’s death on February 16, 1996 (AMST 10), cast a pall over the deployment for me....
I. Prologue - Requiescat in Pace Life got in the way - I had an important motion due in a case - and thus there was a brief hiatus from writing my aviation mishap stories. Now we return with even more gusto! WARNING - the next few episodes, unfortunately,...
[Auth. note - for better context, these are the previous “episodes” in this series: AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] A Collection of Tales Always remember, Kids! Even under the best of circumstances, it can all go to shit in an instant. - One of...
More Stuff Top Gun Never Mentions [Note: Prior pieces in this series can be found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, AMST 6, AMST 7] PostScript to a Crash After “the crash” - as I like to think of it - the squadron performed...
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Four.
Spring 1993 - Beginnings and Endings... [Author note: It will probably help if you read AMST-1/Intro and AMST-2 before reading this one for background and context.] When Marines Still Wore Choker Whites - in the background, the CO holds our newest daughter We are...
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I'll get to this story (eventually) There I was… in the Ready Room When I was a youngling wanna-be pilot in the post-Top Gun Era of the early ‘90s, there was a military aviation magazine called “Approach” that populated all of the Ready Rooms where we wannabes sat and...
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No? Whattaya mean “no”?!
Still timely!
Well, more like “breaking analysis”.
Fin.
10. We are at Part 10.
Part 9.
Part 6.
Buckle up…
Part 8.
Timely stuff! Lawsuits! What’s not to like?
After his first stop at the convenience store near his apartment for a drink he knew he had surveillance. By the time he left his second stop he identified which surveillance team was following him.