In the Navy I saw a guy take a lethal dose of RF. We had to radiate a Tomcat's radar on the ground to find a fault we couldn't reproduce under normal conditions. We put out over a mile and a half of safety ropes that said DO NOT CROSS on both sides and some fool about halfway down walked right over it and stood there in the beam. One of the chiefs saw him and pulled power on the plane.

We raced out there with the duty vehicle and picked this guy up. He said he felt fine and wondered what all the fuss was about. We took him to our ready room and our medics checked him out prior to taking him to medical and his temp was 102F. (I was there) I knew what he got hit with and kept making sideways googly eyes at him. And he kept saying, "Come on guys! You're creeping me out!"

His break down took eight hours. At the four hour mark his liver failed. He went into a coma two hours later and died two hours after that of "nervous system collapse". The really disturbing part was how "unhurt" he felt for the first hour or so after the fact.

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