Peter,

John is right - the flying turkeyleg does consume a bunch of real estate on a 27-Charlie.

I never actually hit the LEX myself, but in 1971 I was overhead LEX in the back seat of a T-2C with a VT-7 det, watching the VMA(AW)-224 CQ goon show prior to their 1972 CORAL MARU cruise. The last time any of 224's senior leadership had seen the back end of the boat was in the training command. Nearly all of the Bengals' JOs wore Wings Of Lead, having gone through USAF flight training as an expediency to get them into the cockpits quickly for the VN war, and none had ever CQed.

After VA-95 stood up in 1972, the Lizards took over the Bengals' slot in the CVW-15 lineup. We wound up spending most of the pre-cruise rehab period aboard the CORAL MARU scraping off all the Semper Fi stuff and red/yellow paint out of our squadron spaces.

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wrote in message ups.com...

John Weiss wrote:
"John Carrier" wrote...

Small was Oriskany, Hancock, and Lex and their sisters. Night traps on
two of them.

Indeed! The A-6 took up a LOT of space on Lady Lex!

Gotta ask if anybody that reads this NG CQ'ed onboard Lex..I did, in
1973...still had a mirror...

Or anybody serve onboard Lex, when she was still a CVA??