A-4 / A-7 Question

Daryl Hunt wrote:

(snipage occurs, fore and aft)

Newsflash, we don't have enough F-15s and just how many F-22s do you think
are in the active duty inventory? We could have used the F-14 during
Vietnam but didn't.

really? that appears to be news to most folks:

Three early F-14As were delivered in the autumn of 1972 to VX-4 at NAS
Point Mugu, California for operational evaluation. The replacement
squadron VF-124 at NAS Miramar received its first Tomcats in June of
1972.
The job of VF-124 was to train Tomcat crews for duty with operational
carrier-based squadrons. The first two operational Tomcat squadrons
were VF-1 Wolfpack and VF-2 Bounty Hunters, both based at NAS Miramar.
These units deployed aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in mid-1974.

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevo...r_us/f014.html

redc1c4,
do you enjoy getting caught lying, or are you just stupid?
--
A Troop - 1st Squadron
404th Lemming Armored Cavalry

"Velox et Capillatus!"

DM howler (was A-4 / A-7
From: redc1c4
Date: 10/12/2003 10:38 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

Daryl Hunt wrote:

(snipage occurs, fore and aft)

Newsflash, we don't have enough F-15s and just how many F-22s do you think
are in the active duty inventory? We could have used the F-14 during
Vietnam but didn't.

really? that appears to be news to most folks:

You didn't know we also had AH-64s and M-1 tanks in Viet Nam? Egad, friend,
have you not read war novels and watched movies?

I have seen such memorable lines as "didn't you fly Apaches in Viet Nam" and
stuff like that there.

Then again FOX's War Stories with Oliver North has had such memorable
statements as "most never came back" when referring to the 8th AF bombing
missions.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

(B2431) wrote:
DM howler (was A-4 / A-7
From: redc1c4

Date: 10/12/2003 10:38 PM Central Daylight
Time
Message-id:

Daryl Hunt wrote:

(snipage occurs, fore and aft)

Newsflash, we don't have enough F-15s and
just how many F-22s do you think
are in the active duty inventory? We could
have used the F-14 during
Vietnam but didn't.
FYI the F-14 was not considered ready until 1974. VF-1 and VF-2 made the
first cruise on USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1975. They did participate in
Operation FREQUENT WIND on 28-29 Apr 1975 covering the evacuation. Several
were fired on by NVA triple-A but no damage or loss of aircraft. And no MiGs
came to disrupt the evac.
The ship had moved on to the IO when USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) covered the Mayaguez
rescue in May.


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