Wiz Buckley
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219 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 17 Jun
Wiz Buckley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That alarm went off and they sprinted out to the aircraft and they were there as soon as they can.
So we should know soon what happened to the second.
Remember, Megan, you probably saw the videos when the Kuwaiti accidentally shot down three of our strike eagles.
One of the guys was in the back of a Kuwaiti SUV, and he had a busted mitt.
So to Jason's point, that air crew might be injured.
If both their hands are injured, they might not be able to pull out their radio, right?
And we kind of train for all this stuff, but when you're in it, you're in it.
So if that is the pilot, so now we're looking for the WISO, the weapon systems operator, the person in the backseat.
And as we talked about with ejecting, you're going from this.
You're going from zero wind and airspeed, and you're going into hundreds of miles of wind blasts.
If you're ever zipping down a highway and you decide to stick your hand out the window, just multiply that by a factor of four or five.
And as Jason alluded to, if they did get hit by a surface-to-air missile or AAA and they were in some sort of spin, it was a movie, but for example, the F-14 Tomcat goose hit in the canopy, you might be out of position in order to eject.
We'd love to be in the perfect body position to eject.
thighs against the seat you know chin 10 degrees up your chin in and they talk you through the perfect ejection position but if you're out of control and there's things and there's fire and you're out of position you're just reaching down to that ejection handle so it's either death or pull that's your choice at that point and clearly they pulled so it is an absolutely violent
experience.
And most people I know who have ejected, they're a couple inches shorter, and it takes a little while to get back on the horse and get back in the airplane.
Megan, it's interesting because I'm old enough to remember Desert Storm and an A6 guy, he was a bombardier navigator, Jeffrey Zahn.
That famous image of his face all black and blue and bloodied, and you could hear the Iranian captors like,
doing all that stuff.
That's why we've kind of moved closer and closer to drone warfare because it's like, hey, let's send a million dollar drone.
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