Peace reigned during my years in the U.S. Air Force, however, I did witness the kind of carnage that can be caused by combat aircraft. While stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, our family attended Europe’s biggest air show at our base.
On August 28, 1988 the Italian Air Force demonstration team (similar to our Thunderbirds) performed in front of a crowd of 300,000. A solo pilot attempted to…