I thought I might kick off "memories/anecdotes".
The only one of the deceased that I met in person was Scout. Sadly, when we were on "Operation Godfather", scattering Monkeyleg's ashes in Moab. Scout and Charby actually did all the planning and picked up Monkeyleg's ashes - I just showed up from the other direction. Scout was a crackup to hang with, and was actually already terminally ill during Operation Godfather. I remember that his hotel room was stacked with boxes of IV fluid that he had to take daily that he had Fedexed to the hotel ahead of time, just so that he could be there to spread the ashes. He was stationed in Germany for a while, so we enjoyed talking about German beer and food a lot.
Though I never met Monkeyleg, it was an honor to be there at the spreading of his ashes. My understanding is that some of the ashes were also spread in Sicily by Lennyjoe. I don't know if anything was ever left at Trijicon HQ (If you know, you know).
This (Dead Horse Canyon) is where we spread his ashes:
I also, though I never met him IRL, exchanged a few, I can't remember if they were PMs or emails, with Leatherneck back when I had just started doing drone stuff in military airspace. He was kind of a bigwig at the Office of Director, Operational Test and Evaluation at either the Pentagon, or Pentagon adjacent, and shared some helpful documentation with me. He was a pretty modest guy. For those that don't know, he was a test pilot. I recall him mentioning bailing out of a prototype Osprey like he was talking about "I just came back from getting milk at the grocery store". What he never talked about that I know of, and that I didn't learn until I read his obituary, is that he flew over 400 combat missions in Vietnam.
