Red Rider wrote as follows regarding the officers of
VF-162 portrayed in Zalin Grant's book "Over the Beach":

I guess I had met and knew all of them, before they made their first cruise
on the big "O". They were a good group of very skilled fighter pilots. Real
good, I had flown with many of them in the early 60's and flew a lot of
hours against all of them during their pre-deployment work-up.

[Remainder of superb post deleted to conserve bandwidth.]

Occasionally I get fed up with the cross-posted bilge, the racist nonsense
and the endless posts about the Liberty and I stop reading this newsgroup
for a time. But then somebody like Red comes along and posts something
that's so amazingly interesting that I wonder why I ever left. A big Bravo
Zulu for him, and for everybody else who has contributed to this thread.