Colonel Day-even a computer klutz like me can follow that SOP. ?? Read once about one of many famous Military Snafus- this one geared to aviation-- When they first came up with the concept of the ejection seat, with the parachute attached to the back, they had printed the seven steps on the the overhead plexiglas(?) canopy in the cockpit- all in order and in readable sized type--follow that "Magnificent Seven" and you were home free- the first step was to fire the canopy ejection system, which then sent the canopy into the stratosphere with the remaining 6 steps--
We didn't see many railroad tracks when I was in "Uncle Ho's Playground- I Corps sector) but we were advised to avoid them, as the Navy aviators when lost would follow them- referred to as the "Iron Compass"--
In closing- line from my favorite poem-- "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth''-- John Gillespie McGee Jr. died on a training flight in his native Canada the same year I was born-- All of us "ground pounders"- as all Marines are 0311's-- regardless of other MOS-- appreciate all the air support- "Rolling Thunder" that came about in the course of the Vietnam War--
Canopy In "Launch Mode"--
Threaded Mode