On his first live bomb exercise A-10 pilot Captain Craig Button broke

[bobthedrummer]

formation over Arizona and headed to Colorado with a ton of live bombs. Remember this strange and scary story from 1997?
http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw1.html

[Pharaoh]

1. Yes I remember

Why bringing it up now?

[RetroLounge]

2. yes, and then Josh broke a window and cut his hand...

RL

[democracyindanger]

3. No, it was a whiskey glass.

Quit spreading your misinformation.

[RetroLounge]

7. It was the music. Sounded like sirens.

I stand corrected

:hi:

RL

[AZCat]

4. Waiting for the other shoe to drop...

How long are you going to wait before explaining this?

[idiosyncratic]

5. What if the pilot's behavior was linked to something like this . . . ?

Just guessing, but until the OP weighs in, this is a thought . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3100242

Side effects of drug harms soldiers

SAN DIEGO - As a volunteer firefighter, Georg-Andreas Pogany had seen disfigured bodies pulled from wrecked cars. But something very different happened when the Army interrogator saw the mangled remains of an Iraqi soldier.

He became panicked, disoriented and that night reached for both his loaded pistol and rifle as he thought he saw the enemy bursting into his room. Pogany asked his superiors for help; the Army packed him home to face charges of cowardice — the first such case since Vietnam.

None of it made sense to Pogany until he learned more about the white pills the Army gave him each week to prevent malaria.

The drug's manufacturer warned of rare but severe side effects including paranoia and hallucinations. It became his defense: The pills made him snap. The Army dropped all charges, a spokesman later saying that Pogany "may have a medical problem that requires care and treatment."

[AZCat]

6. Your guess is as good as mine n/t

[bobthedrummer]

8. Explain what, this is a mystery involving a US military family.

I like mysteries and statistical outliers, don't you?
OTOH, US military/intelligence families were often the sources of unwitting human research subjects for all kinds of "secret" projects (that are mysterious-but very real).