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Former U.S. Air Force officer and pilot Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., also known by the call sign “Runner,” 65, a U.S. citizen, was arrested today in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Brown was charged by criminal

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Who are we kidding? I think we've all paid a price in our lives at some point because we thought with a certain body part to the exclusion of all else.

Sometimes the price can be pretty steep.

Dude flew at my airline, got fired. Evidently NOBODY had a good thing to say about him,, lots of issues.

Edited yesterday at 09:41 PM1 day by Vito

2 hours ago, Vito said:

Dude flew at my airline, got fired. Evidently NOBODY had a good thing to say about him,, lots of issues.

Story time!

His crews said he liked to drink and start fights…..seemed a common thread in most stories..

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by Vito

I copied something I wrote on another site and occurred in the 92-93 timeframe.

As a Flt CC,I took 6 A-10s from Shaw to Little Rock to support the Army doing Army things at Ft. Chaffee near Ft. Smith. Runner brings a jet back with a broken windscreen. No worries, that front panel would occasionally Crack from the window heat. Well, that wasn't it. He had hit the grounding wire on some high tension power lines. No call. No controllability/ damage check. He argues he did nothing wrong. The front windscreen on the Hawg is 7 layers of laminate that will stop a 23mm cannon round. That windscreen is supported by a very stout I- beam looking frame. The grounding wire hit on top of the AAR door, slid over the windscreen cracking the glass and shearing off windscreen attachment bolts before scratching the top of the canopy. The wire completely missed the engine nacelles and rudders. Any other jet and he would have been sliced in two and he thinks he did nothing wrong. Arkansas Power and Light was replacing that wire and sent us the piece with gray paint on it and said it was 292 feet off the ground which was below his cleared altitude. His excuse was rising terrain despite that handy, dandy radar altimeter warning which was not used.

He also almost put a Vark in the dirt during Desert Shield after screwing up a LGB toss. You might have seen the video updating your altitude chamber.

I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by TreeA10

I heard he was in the Epstein files, too.

7 hours ago, Vito said:

His crews said he liked to drink and start fights…..seemed a common thread in most stories..

So he was a Loadmaster? Now I'm confused.