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Like.... maybe this one --
Photo of the last operational sortie flown by VF-301 in F-4s.
CDRs Bob "Mouse" Shaw and Bruce Thorkleson climb out from Miramar and head south to one of the Papa areas off Mexico on a drill weekend Sunday afternoon in September 1984. It was the last flight in the Navy (Reserve) for both Mouse and Bruce. (Mouse went on to fly for the Air Force Reserves at Dayton.) During the next couple of weeks, the squadron's aircraft were flown either to other Reserve squadrons (both Navy and Marine Corps) or to NARF Cherry Point for rework. The squadron received F-14A Tomcats in mid-October.
There were two Reserve fighter squadrons at Miramar from 1970 until they went away in 1994
VF-301 was known as the Devil's Disciples
VF-302 was knows as the Stallions.
The paint scheme was officially called the Heater-Ferris scheme. It was invented by "Heater" Heatley in the early '80s. The "Ferris" part of it came from four aircraft having a false canopy painted on the bottom of the aircraft. Ferris had actually patented the idea, and VF-301 and VF-302 were each allowed to have 4 of the squadron's aircraft painted this way... any more than 4 and we would have to have paid him.
VF-301 and -302 went to the scheme in 1981, with VF-301's going from dark to light as you went from front to back. VF-302 had a mirror image of the scheme, with the stripes going from light to dark and the the opposite direction as the -301 birds.
VF-191 and VF-194 each had F-4Js painted in the Ferris splinter scheme for their 1976 cruise on Coral Sea. Later, VF-1 and VF-2 had Tomcats painted this way.
My Naval Air Station is prettier than your Naval Air Station
When it's sunny here Whidbey can't be beat. Of course, it's not always sunny. On the morning drive in you can usually see 4 bald eagles holding down the fort along the sound, but I was a bit surprised to see this one hanging out at sunset. The sunset picture was taken last night from Mt. Erie in Anacortes, looking south west. Whidbey Island NAS is in the lower left, with the Olympic Mountains and the Straits of Juan De Fuca in the background.
When it's sunny here Whidbey can't be beat. Of course, it's not always sunny. On the morning drive in you can usually see 4 bald eagles holding down the fort along the sound, but I was a bit surprised to see this one hanging out at sunset. The sunset picture was taken last night from Mt. Erie in Anacortes, looking south west. Whidbey Island NAS is in the lower left, with the Olympic Mountains and the Straits of Juan De Fuca in the background.
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I didn't include VF-1285 (which I was a member of from '78 to '81 when they were the F-4 SRU) and -1485 because they didn't have any of their own aircraft. VF-1285 was divided into an "A" side and a "B" side, with the "A's" flying with VF-301 exclusively and the "B" siders with -302.
I have one of the original "Fighting Fubijar" (F**k you buddy, I'm just a Reserve) patches made in the PI. VF-1285 went away for a while after the F-14 transition, but came back after I left VF-301 in '87.
VF-1485 was over at VF-124 and those guys played flight instructor at the RAG.
Lobster
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Well ... mebbe ... until they start landing on my roof early in the AM and shitting all over and screeching and giving me "attitude" on my beach .... and by the way ... this guy has me boresighted and likes Oscar Meyer hot dogs w/out the bun .... no mustard ... and he's somewhat impatiently waitin' for another one when I took the pix ....
Now THAT's AMERICAN, if nothing else is ....
Lobster
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Well ... mebbe ... until they start landing on my roof early in the AM and shitting all over and screeching and giving me "attitude" on my beach .... and by the way ... this guy has me boresighted and likes Oscar Meyer hot dogs w/out the bun .... no mustard ... and he's somewhat impatiently waitin' for another one when I took the pix ....
Now THAT's AMERICAN, if nothing else is ....
So you're saying he's a democrat?
Turkeys are the most noble winged creature of them all, without a doubt. Should have been our National Bird, too. Ben Franklin had it right.
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