Page 96 - Stand Down Vietnam

I was assigned to a B66 Squadron, that’s an old bomber
type aircraft that never carried a bomb. It was
equipped to perform electronic warfare.

As one story goes; an electronic warfare officer caught
a missile coming in and he did whatever he was supposed
to do and managed to turn that missile around and send
it right back to where it had come from. So that was a
good happening there.

Another time, I had an aircraft assigned to me; we
launched it out on April 2d of ’72. It had a pilot,
navigator and four electronic warfare officers on
board.

That was when Nixon was getting ready to bomb the North

again. The mission was to fly over and locate the SAM
Missile Sites and other defensive ground units. It was
escorted by two F105 Thunder Chiefs from Korat. All of
a sudden someone hollered out over the radio that a SAM

was coming our way.