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- I was the wing man

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to the first two aircraft
that came into the SR-71.

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Okay, I came in to get the numbers,

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and then I said to myself,

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this man is in trouble, real trouble.

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So, I thought that he was
going to declare an emergency

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and turning over Sweden,

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but they kept on going south.

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And we took the numbers and so on,

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and we were unarmed at that time.

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We were just there for
practicing and all this occurred.

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And then the pair was inbound,

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and we were running on bingo fuel.

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So we turned back to our base.

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And that's basically what happened.

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Amazing, absolutely amazing.

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First, I didn't think too much about it,

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but then I went to the net there,

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to Google it,

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and I read all these names

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that had got medal before me.

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And, it's big.

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It's really big.