Thread: Return of the AP !
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Old January 28th 06, 08:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.military.naval
Mike Weeks
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Default Return of the AP !

wrote:
(sorry about the all caps "yelling": but it was too involved to
correct.)

(The last of the enlisted pilots were gone by the late 50's to the
best of my knowledge.)

According to NavAir History:

"30 April 1973: The last Marine NAP (enlisted Naval Aviation Pilot)
retired. He was Master Gunnery Sergeant Patrick J. O'Neil, who enlisted
during World War II and completed over 30 years of active duty."

IIRC, NavAir News had some articles, during the Vietnam War era, of
Navy NAPs flying transports in-country.

MW