Originally Posted by gringo

When I was at Suddern Air, we never once flew into a War Zone.

We did, however, often frequent “areas of unrest”. Our airplanes must have had a special coating or something applied, because they always seemed to attract that pesky “Afghani Lightning”.

Rather peculiar this Afghani stuff. Most lightning strikes leave but a pinhole marking the exit point.

This stuff?

Always seemed to be right around 7.62mm in diameter...

Nature is odd. Who knows?