I was EA-6B crew (ECMO). We had zero-zero Martin Baker seats too, but as I recall sink rate was a problem and those poor guys had plenty of that.
Purely to brag here, my skipper and I were on a bogie bait hop in one of our Prowlers, acting as easy targets for Phantoms working with the SunKing's E-2 and ship controllers. But we had a clean bird with no drop tanks and no jammer pods, so on the last engagement we decided not to be so cooperative and got into a nice tussle with, it turned out, their XO. The brag part is that we waxed them good. Got into a close trail position after they over-shot and we reversed on them. Would have made for an easy guns shot (not that we had any). Skipper and I went down to their ready room still in flight gear just to rub it in.
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