Aviationist states that two out of five crew were killed. It also explains why we haven’t seen a lot Bears recently - they’ve been grounded because of this incident.

Don’t forget that time Doug Masters and Chappy Sinclair brought an entire Middle Eastern dictatorship to its knees and assassinated its leader with just two of them. That alone puts it in the pantheon.

Awesome Pic-

It's beautiful man!

I’m a Marine, so there’s that. Dark humor man... buck up.

Love the A-10 pilot’s quote... Which can be summed up as, “It was fucking glorious.”

Former MMCO - Sea Elks! Tustin!

Frog as in Phrog?

The Marines on those aircraft (assuming all naval aircrewman) train for at-sea events and are by some standards required to be excellent swimmers.