9Abort! Abort!The Courage to Quit
I’M EXHAUSTED BUT can’t sleep. It’s a chilly sixty-five degrees in the hotel room, but I’m sweating profusely. My mind won’t stop racing.
In just a few hours I’ll be strapping into an F-16 for an eight-hour nonstop flight home from Morón Air Base in Spain to Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. This is not a combat mission. There will be no missiles and no night refueling in thunderstorms—just a mellow cross-country flight to the good old United States.
There’s only one problem. It’s called the Atlantic Ocean. Thirty-five hundred miles of nothing but me, my F-16, and freezing-cold water. What did I get myself into?
Like a fool, I volunteered to be one of the six fighter pilots in my squadron to ferry an F-16 ...
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