Patrick D. McCaslin Interview, 25 February 2001
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| INT: | Okay so, then you land. | |
| PM: | Right. And normally what you do is you go into base ops, you debrief the mission...uh...and at that point, what was unusual was being met by people from the wing who wanted film. Normally you just carry the film packets in, as I remember it, and turn them over to the targeting people who would develop it for training purposes and so forth. But this time we were met and the film was taken right at that point, which I guess is understandable. | |
| INT: | So they were well aware that you had— | |
| PM: | Oh yeah. Word was out that we'd had an unusual in—circumstance. And I don't remember much about the debriefing in base ops. | |
| INT: | The mechanical debriefing? | |
| PM: | Yeah, it was that kind of a thing where normally, where you—because we didn't have that kind of a mission where you talk about the bomb drops or anything or simulated bomb drops. | |
| INT: | Now you're talking about right after you land—before you've gone home, there was a debriefing. | |
| PM: | Yeah. Right. Yeah. You go in and you have a coke, do what we're doing now, talk about the mission and you know, answer questions, talk to the maintenance people and tell them about any problems you had and I know we did that. I just don't have a clear memory of that. I think that's where some of the things may have come out, like Tom Goduto may have said to the rest of the crew, "Hey,"that's where I picked up something strange on my gear"—the electronic warfare gear. | |
| INT: | But this is a mechanical debriefing, essentially? | |
| PM: | Yeah, it's essentially— | |
| INT: | So these guys aren't going to be asking about the UFO event, right? | |
| PM: | Not necessarily. And they may have. There may have been people in there asking us. I just don't remember. | |
| INT: | But I mean they'd probably heard about it while you guys were coming in. | |
| PM: | May have. | |
| INT: | 'Cause they knew you were coming in, they had to be out. |
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