F-105G Wild Weasel III Electronic Warfare Officer

Sat in the back seat hunting Soviet SAM sites — "First In, Last Out." Drew the SAM's attention, then killed it with a Shrike anti-radiation missile before it killed them.

The Story

The first Wild Weasel motto — engraved on the unit patch as **YGBSM** — was Capt. Jack Donovan's reaction the moment he was briefed on the mission: *"You Gotta Be Shitting Me."* Forty years later the patch still says it.