Grendel as a Universal Infantry Cartridge

[Jaywalker]

I dropped BUFFs just as quickly as I could, figuring I'd rather guard a missile hole in North Dakota than set butt in another BUFF. I switched to the Air National guard and learned the reconnaissance F-4 world, the RF-4C as a WSO. At least B-47 flights were shorter so the pain was less...until you got to those planned one-way flights, I guess. Though, there were times I hoped the BUFF engines would flame out or even burn so we could land.

By the way, they did on occasion, and the single seat pilots got quite a charge when we declare an In-Flight Emergency with an inop engine - they called it the "Dreaded Seven Engine Approach!"