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Mar 2023
55m 47s

FPP162 - Shot Down! U.S. F-16 Pilot Expl...

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot
About this episode

Former U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper pilot Jeff "Tico" Tice was callsign 'Stroke 1,' the flight lead for the ill-fated "Package Q" strike on Iraq just days into Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Stroke 3 miraculously dodged multiple Iraqi SAMs and made it home safely where his HUD footage became a sensation. Tico was not so lucky...

Read about Package Q here.

Watch the Stroke 3 video here.



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