operation midnight hammer f-16 pilots just tried to dogfight a drone and ended up losing a game of chicken with a flock of geese, AITA?
TL;DR Some Air Force brain trust thought it'd be a sick idea to have our top F-16 jocks play "tag" with a cloud of migrating Canada geese at midnight as part of "operation midnight hammer." Apparently, the geese won by like a million points after one of the birds went full kamikaze on the jet's intake. Now the pilot is just sitting in a field, weeping into his $200,000 helmet while the geese have organized a press conference to demand reparations for the noise violation. Total vibe kill for the whole, "we rule the skies" narrative, but honestly, I'd rather we just give the geese their own wing commander at this point.