A Navy veteran pulled back the curtain on the “violent” experience airmen like the ones on the downed F-15E endure when ejecting from an aircraft — revealing the emergency maneuver includes little to no parachute training.
Matthew “Whiz” Buckley, a TOPGUN graduate and the president of the No Fallen Heroes Foundation, told The Post that the Air Force colonel and his pilot made “a pretty stark choice to either die or eject” last week when they were shot down over Iran.
Few would know better than Buckley, who piloted F-18 Hornets in 44 combat missions during two tours in Iraq.
“You’re always worried about the condition of the aviator and aircrew, if they had to eject, because
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