Rick Scott,

Yet I see a website where someone claiming to be a commander and being commissioned in 82 wearing A/O wings on his uniform.

Perhaps this was a former enlisted who earned A/C wings and was later commissioned.

Keep in mind that enlisted A/C wings (the modern version, not the WWII wings) and the now-defunct NAO wings can look very similar from a distance or in a website photo.

See p. 659 and p. 663 in http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-1910/APP20.PDF for illustrations of each.

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"R. Scott" wrote in message ...
From what I remember and what I can read they are no longer issued and the
NFO came out in 1968. Yet I see a website where someone claiming to be a
commander and being commissioned in 82 wearing A/O wings on his uniform. In
my limited 16 year career (med disch not retired) I never once seen them.

Plus a lot of his other pictures and stuff don't add up.

Like his pictures of VP31 A/C deployed overseas, Course I was in VP31 and
don't remember them deploying all over the world they seemed to train a
lot of people though .


Thanks in advanced for answering the query

Rick Scott
Fmr USN AE1 and Aircrew