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Well, it had been had an interesting week – the President doesn’t know Alaska from Russia, a Reaper drone lost its propeller, a Stolen Valor pissing contest went to using real bullets, a screwing couple really<\/em> screwed the pooch (at least we know they felt the earth move, right?) – sorta thought things would calm down.<\/p>\n I was wrong.<\/p>\n For your Saturday enjoyment (starting my best Rod Serling voice “Imagine, if you will, someone jumping out of a perfectly good airplane” describing the most embarrassing thing that could happen to you on an ‘incentive ride’ . Worse than getting airsick at zero meters above local ground level.<\/p>\n \u201cIncentive flight ejected on the flight line before even taking off, member was apparently a recruiting officer from the 104FW at Barnes ANGB,\u201d the Air Force amn\/nco\/snco Facebook page stated under their post of the video. We cannot confirm who the rear seat occupant was at this time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m guessing a recruiter did a hell of a job and as congratulations was allowed a brief hop on an F-15… and he punched out while the jet was still on the ground. I’m gonna give him the advantage of doubt – he grabbed the wrong handle? The pilot said “Whatever you do, don’t grab the red handle” and all he heard was “grab the red handle”? He took “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder” too quickly?<\/p>\n An undated video posted on social media shows the aftermath of the incident. A puff of smoke is seen wafting from the backseat as the F-15 is still taxiing. The canopy, having been blown off during the ejection sequence, is lying on the Eagle\u2019s left wing. The passenger appears to be crawling next to the runway near what looks like a parachute as the F-15 continues to roll by.\u00a0The War Zone<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n They say a near-zero ejection has its own dangers – I am thinking soiled underwear was his due (as Bill Cosby observed “First you say it, then you do it.”), if not during the ejection, then when he realized he will forever be That Guy. The one they use as a cautionary tale. The one nobody could screw up worse than. That Guy. Punched out of a good airplane on the ground<\/em>. People Will Know.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Totally unrelated story of another That Guy: One of the HR managers at a company I worked for sent out a l-o-n-g memo on Snake Dangers to all personnel. Might have been relevant for the Texas plant, not so much for the Chicago plant, and totally off-mark for the Irish plant. Then he followed it with an equally long How to Prevent Snake Bites, and yet another on How to Treat Snake Bites.<\/p>\n One engineer drafted a mail to his buddies, “who the f does he think he is, the world f ing authority on snakes, and pages on end of this bull s, who does he think he is, Edgar F ing Allen Poe” – and then brainfarted and hit Reply All, so everyone in the company received it. CEO, execs on down, plus many customers on various mail lists.<\/p>\n It did cost him a suspension, but this was a fairly forgiving company and he kept his job. Almost two years later a customer from a large Texas computer company was visiting, and when introduced to all the project engineers, as soon as he heard this name he went “You’re That Guy! The one with the e-mail!”<\/p>\n Two YEARS later and 1,000 miles away…he was That Guy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"