I was busy fighting the cold war. Still pulled nuke alert in the B-52H model while our G brothers went to war. Heard about the first three nights of low level, including the story of one buff doing a race track back over the target when they failed to release their weapons on the first try....word was they got shot up like hell, but made it back.

The G model guys flew so much they hit up some H model crews to come off the bench and get recurrent at Castle in the G. One of our pilot's who went told me they got over there just in time to get one mission in. While they're briefing it up his deployed ops O tells him he'll be tanking behind a KC-10...."you've been behind a KC-10 before, right?" "Oh, yes, Sir!" He said it took him 5 attempts to get his first hook up with a KC-10 that night.

Best story I ever heard was from an AC-130 copilot who said they had multiple SAM launches on them that they eventually were inverted pulling the nose back up to the horizon only to miss going into the sand around 500'. He said AWACS thought they were dead for sure. Hearing his story first hand made the hair on my neck stand up.