Gushubble:

Yeah, when I went through RTU they warned us to not use use the self-protection pod (ALQ-131) or radar within 15 ft of personnel or fuel trucks/explosives/etc.

It wasn't until much later that I thought "Wait a minute...this radar has a beam of 1.5 degrees---this is really concentrated even out to a long distance!!"

I found it laughable in my last fighter squadron that we couldn't use Liquid Paper, also known as "whiteout," for correcting paperwork. OSHA had declared it hazardous. (fumes of some sort).

Yet I could fly with 2-5,000 lbs of high explosive strapped to the jet, no further than 15 ft from my seat.

I had visions of the Bomb Dump bunkers being re-labelled as "Office Supplies."