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The Tomcat Legacy; 35+ years from Fleet Air Defender to Recce to Precision Strike
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Blutonski816
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well, it was either that or the Cover to Rage's Battle of Los Angeles...
The "best of the best" always!
I will always love that smell. *tear*
The thought just gets my blood pumping again.
VF-84 forever!
A perfect rendition
Im at a loss for words about how I feel about her. To me she was more beautiful than a woman, and more meaner than anything god had created.
Sad cannot describe my feelings. She was what made me love the Navy.
I loved and will always love that airplane as if it were a part of me.
SALUTE! - ALWAYS BABY!
Ryoukai
The Chief doesn't like cheeky humor...at all
I think UI was asking because of the past tense that Hazegrey used but has nothing regarding that in the profile. I'm willing to go out on a limb here that there wasn't any raising of the nose in his post. Or it could be that the tone of some posters who used ill-fitting pictures with very dramatic language yet had nothing to do with the community got his goat.
It does make me sad that the thing which, in my Top Gun influenced eyes, symbolized Naval aviation is leaving. I guess that puts an end to going down to Pearl to sneak peeks when a carrier comes to visit...I need hobbies.
goodness sakes! a guy goes to get somthing to eat and the has to defend his actions. fellas fellas were all on the same team here.
no not a f-14 driver. biggest dissapointment in my life. didnt get in soon enough. but have been around them plenty to think in my head that i was
i guess my words could have been better but i stand by what i said.
enough about you.....enough about me.....back to topic (heck if a mod wants to get rid of these posts..........go ahead)
this is a celebration............of sorts
no not a f-14 driver. biggest dissapointment in my life. didnt get in soon enough. but have been around them plenty to think in my head that i was
i guess my words could have been better but i stand by what i said.
enough about you.....enough about me.....back to topic (heck if a mod wants to get rid of these posts..........go ahead)
this is a celebration............of sorts
HazeGray said:goodness sakes! a guy goes to get somthing to eat and the has to defend his actions. fellas fellas were all on the same team here.
no not a f-14 driver. biggest dissapointment in my life. didnt get in soon enough. but have been around them plenty to think in my head that i was
i guess my words could have been better but i stand by what i said.
enough about you.....enough about me.....back to topic (heck if a mod wants to get rid of these posts..........go ahead)
this is a celebration............of sorts
Back to topic then. VF-213 and VF-31 are having a busy last cruise with their F-14Ds. Tomcat is going out with head held high. The Sunset Ceremony in Sept (see separate thread on that) has a basic premise of "no tears" (A-6 Retirement Ceremony was very morose at times and tears were flowing freely). Tomcat has had a great run...35 years and counting in US Navy (who know how long Iranians will keep theirs flying) service and on the first string!
Well, looks like the Navy has a somewhat better plan in mind for the old Tomcat fellas than the Intruders... a few RIOs running around in VF-14, -143, -31 may have disagreed, but overall the Tomcat community seems content with the way the transition has gone...
Anytime, baby!
Anytime, baby!
Ryoukai said:I think UI was asking because of the past tense that Hazegrey used but has nothing regarding that in the profile. I'm willing to go out on a limb here that there wasn't any raising of the nose in his post. Or it could be that the tone of some posters who used ill-fitting pictures with very dramatic language yet had nothing to do with the community got his goat.
Rayuki...WTF are you saying here. I have no idea what you just said. Dumb it down for us local folk...you know morons.
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TurnandBurn55 said:Well, looks like the Navy has a somewhat better plan in mind for the old Tomcat fellas than the Intruders... a few RIOs running around in VF-14, -143, -31 may have disagreed, but overall the Tomcat community seems content with the way the transition has gone...
Anytime, baby!
I don't think there is any real dissatisfaction in the transitioning squadrons at all. I get a lot of interaction with Super Hornet transition guys and as the last skipper of VFA-122 told me as we watched a Super Hornet demo "I loved every minute of my time in the Tomcat, but I've never looked back". And that isn't because he "drank the kool-aid" either. Most guys tell me the ideal situation is have to have flown both and for a new guy, to have a deployment in Toms followed by a transition. The Super Hornet is a great weapons systems platform and most weapons deliveries today are from an integrated system. With JHMCS, Link 16, all the J weapons and more, HARM, ATLFIR, AMRAAM and soon, AIM-9X, and a legacy of MSI in the weapon system as well as being new so it stays up, it is a potent weapons platform. The Tomcat has had 35 years on the front line. No other Naval fighter has had that long a legacy (F-4 barely made it to twenty when last units transitioned to Tomcat and it was being replaced just after 10 years.