It's Speichts.com , wasn't Speicher a downed F15 pilot in Gulf War I?
Oops. I'll edit those posts tomorrow.
And, technically, it was an F-18. What REALLY sucked about it was you had this big gaggle of A-6s, F-18s and so forths all lining up on a target, first night of ODS, and all of a sudden AWACS calls a Foxbat in their britches, one F-18 (no ID on which pilot) actually locks him up, but the AWACS crew can't declare him hostile, and order the F-18 to disengage. Obediently (and probably against his better judgment), he does that. Then the Foxbat turns around, locks up Speicher and shoots him down. So, anyone who wants to use this incident to dis on Speicher is stupid. It was the AWACS that got him shot down. Any amount of study of modern A-A war will show the AWACS, an airborne intelligence platform, is often the weak link in the kill chain.
Oops, wrong forum. Sorry.