Samples From Reflections of a Career in Carrier Aviation
Submitted by: Steeljaw Scribe This is the memory of: Steeljaw Scribe Relationship to submitter: 1st Person Narrative
* Badgers, Buccaneers and Bears - A North Atlantic Tale from the "Good Ole Days": Soviet Bear and Badger bombers, scads of exercise "opposition" exercise aircraft and multiple carrier battle group ops with F-14s, F-4s and Sea Harriers - all in the North Atlantic from the perspective of an E-2C Hawkeye NFO.
* Watching A War Start 1980 and Iran and Iraq go to war...IKE and CVW-7 are there as witnesses.
* Sympathy for an HT Life on a CVN isn't always what the movies make it out to be.