{"id":111678,"date":"2021-03-22T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=111678"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:28:45","slug":"remember-marine-mechs-a-4-joyride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=111678","title":{"rendered":"Remember? Marine Mech’s A-4 Joyride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA-4M Skyhawk<\/p>\n

Pretty impressive, if not exactly career enhancing. At least in the Marines- read on.<\/p>\n

That Time a Marine Mechanic Took a Joyride in a Stolen A4M Skyhawk<\/h3>\n

By Blake Stilwell<\/strong><\/p>\n

How much could a Marine Corps fighter cost? That was probably one of the questions running through 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Howard Foote\u2019s mind as the enlisted flight mechanic climbed into an unarmed A4M Skyhawk in the middle of a July night.<\/p>\n

In case you were wondering, the cost is roughly $18 million. Rather, that was the cost back in 1984, when Foote stole one of them from Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. Today, that would be the equivalent of $41 million, adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n

Sentries tried to stop Foote as he taxied the aircraft for takeoff, but they just couldn\u2019t get his attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cFoote joined the Marines to go to the Corps\u2019 Enlisted Commissioning Program, hoping to attend flight school,\u201d Lt. Tim Hoyle, an El Toro public affairs officer, told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cHowever, while flying at 42,500 feet in a glider, he suffered an aerial embolism similar to the bends suffered by divers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marines took a dim view of his borrowing the bird, and so he spent some quality time in the brig and was awarded an OTH for his trouble. But that’s not the end of the tale, by far. Read the entire article here: Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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