Marine fighter pilots?

I rented The Great Santini the other night and was surprised to find out
that the Marines had fighter pilots. I thought the only USAF and Navy had
the fighter pilots.



A very good movie. The Marines have had fighter pilots probably since WW1 and
certainly since the 1920's. Marine fighter pilots were very effective in WW2.
Look up names like, Foss, Boyington, Bauer, Hanson, Carl and Smith.

John Dupre'

"JDupre5762" wrote in message
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I rented The Great Santini the other night and was surprised to find out
that the Marines had fighter pilots. I thought the only USAF and Navy had
the fighter pilots.



A very good movie. The Marines have had fighter pilots probably since WW1
and
certainly since the 1920's. Marine fighter pilots were very effective in
WW2.
Look up names like, Foss, Boyington, Bauer, Hanson, Carl and Smith.

John Dupre'

i had forgot about the Black Sheep Squadron.

i had forgot about the Black Sheep Squadron

And I'd forgotten about Boyington!

Make that "at least four" Marine fighter pilots in the AVG Flying
Tigers.

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Marines don't have fighter pilots. They have mud movers.

Navin R. Johnson wrote:

I rented The Great Santini the other night and was surprised to find out
that the Marines had fighter pilots. I thought the only USAF and Navy had
the fighter pilots.

Marines don't have fighter pilots. They have mud movers.

If my meory isn't faulty, a marine in a mud-moving machine, aka F4U,
shot down a Mig in Korea.

vince norris

"vincent p. norris" wrote:

Marines don't have fighter pilots. They have mud movers.

If my meory isn't faulty, a marine in a mud-moving machine, aka F4U,
shot down a Mig in Korea.

And aside from John Bolt, who scored 6 kills flying F-86s in Korea to
add to his six while in the Black Sheep, there was that other marine
flying F-86s as an exchange pilot with the 51st FIW, who's credited with
three MiG kills in 27 missions. Some guy named John H. Glenn, whose
subsequent career was pretty run of the mill :^).

Guy

"Guy Alcala" wrote in message

"vincent p. norris" wrote:

Marines don't have fighter pilots. They have mud movers.

If my meory isn't faulty, a marine in a mud-moving machine, aka F4U,
shot down a Mig in Korea.

And aside from John Bolt, who scored 6 kills flying F-86s in Korea to
add to his six while in the Black Sheep, there was that other marine
flying F-86s as an exchange pilot with the 51st FIW, who's credited
with three MiG kills in 27 missions. Some guy named John H. Glenn,
whose subsequent career was pretty run of the mill :^).

Guy

Yeah, that Glenn guy ended up doing some test pilot work for some agency
based in Florida, didn't he? NOAA or NCA or something like that. Can't
really recall.

;-)

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ddd wrote:

Marines don't have fighter pilots. They have mud movers.

those are the 0331's............ %-)

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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:27:44 GMT, "Navin R. Johnson"
wrote:

I rented The Great Santini the other night and was surprised to find out
that the Marines had fighter pilots. I thought the only USAF and Navy had
the fighter pilots.

Wow, are you going to catch it over this one :-) (assuming that this
is not a troll).

The USMC has had "fighter pilots" since the 1930's and some of the
very best "fighter pilots" at that. They currently fly the F/A-18 and
the AV-8.

Al Minyard