Originally Posted by
F15Cricket
Agree with most of what you said. I was never a backseat IP, so I would say getting shot at by Serbian SAMs was a little more scary than getting gas ... BUT, on the other hand, we did take an informal poll in the squadron a couple of weeks into the war (Allied Force, 1999), and the consensus that the most dangerous part of each mission was getting to / from the tanker ...
I've done both, a student's first night trip to the tanker was worse since I was pretty certain that all the SAMs and AAA shot at me weren't going to result in any sort of collision. Besides, when did you guys go anywhere near a MEZ, it doesn't count if you're watching the enemy shoot at your SEAD and you're 100 NM away...
