I'm adding this blog because of a suggestion from Shane.
First, I have to tell you I'm not a pilot. I spent my entire career in the United States Air Force in the back end of various aircraft platforms. I was an intelligence operator on a number of aircraft, and this story is on an EC-130E, a communications counter-electronics or, most understandably, a communications jamming platform.
Here goes:
So there I was... (like so many AF stories).... I was deployed to Italy in 1999 with my unit for Operation ALLIED FORCE (to counter the Serbian retaliation to the ethnic uprising…