there was one F-14 for the Marine Corps just being transferred from the
Navy to VMFA-531 at Miramar and in days the Marine Corps (Gen Tom Miller
DCSAir) cancelled the program for the reasons that did drive the Corps
into the quest of their own ships and aircraft so not to share deck
responsibilities with the Navy on Navy missions. At this time it was the
Harrier "B" Program. Not sure if the transfer actually happened but the
first 2 squadrons were forming up to take on their Tomcats. It was a
sad day, Mike Gunther (F-14 lead instructor on to ACMI fame) came into
the ready room and said "Any Marines in the brief" - after the "yea,
yea", a simple "You're outta here"... and it was over.


wrote in message
ups.com...
Quite strangely, U.S. Marine Corps never bought F-14, so it looks the
last *real* aircraft they operated was F-4 Phantom, or maybe A-6
Intruder... And now they strongly oppose against F-35C, fighting hard
for the all-STOVL force.

Best regards,
Jacek


On 28 Kwi, 00:17, "Paul J. Adam" wrote:
In message , rstro

writes

sure there is/.........
call ARMARC and get some real airplanes back in the Navy--F-14

Useless gold-plated junk dependent on radar (which never works) and
missiles (worse than useless). How many missile kills in the Korean
War?
QED.

Get *real* aircraft. Re-equip the USN with F6F Hellcats.

--
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and
its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting
done
by fools.
-Thucydides

Paul J. Adam - mainbox{at}jrwlynch[dot]demon(dot)codotuk