nt (Gordon) wrote in message ...
CAG Hal was running Ike's airwing during the 1980 "Good deal cruise" (93 days
underway, 4 day break, 155 days underway).

Don't forget, 347 days total underway time for 1980 also


The VF squadrons politely swept up the mess and reassembled their abused F-14s
(damage was minor on them), but the nosecones were accidentally/deliberated
swapped - for the rest of the cruise, the paintjobs on our Dawgs and
Ghostriders seemed to never match their noses again.

Sure glad the only thing hurt that day was CAG's pride!

Yeah, that day, but you forgot the wing sweep incident later on
deployment that left the Dogs (I think) w/one less jet for flyoff...
that was also his least Tomcat hop too IIRC. As far as flying with
all the others, well, I think I remember him flying with us
(Bluetails)-- once --

Will Dossel
last of the Steeljaws (VAW-122)