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Sorry took me so long to reply back, but wanted to talk with the ejection seat bubbas over here first so I didn't toss out bad gouge, but yes, the older F-5 models both had to pull to go. The Air Force is retrofitting their F-5's/T-38's with new seats and installing the CE function.
Anyways... I heard of this one shoe punching out of a Black Lions Tomcat one time......