Capt. Lance Sijan’s F-4C crashed in a ball of fire after a malfunction caused its ordnance to detonate prematurely. With no survival kit, no food, little water, a fractured skull, a mangled hand and fractured leg, he evaded capture for 46 days by crawling down a rocky limestone karst on his back, ” guest speaker Michael Goldware told Capt. Sijan’s story at the ceremony.
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