In the mid-80’s, the VAW community in an attempt to address soaring OPTEMPO and a shortage of pilots tried the NFO Copilot program, wherein 2nd tour LTs and LCDRs were taken through a FRS NATOPS syllabus and qualified to fly right seat for day/VMC ops off the boat… “So Scribe, what was it like as…
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Paul Gallagher, fellow VAW alum, dropped by a short bit ago to pass along a remembrance of one of the crews we lost in the early ’90s. See, one of the hallmarks of the E-2/C-2 is the (still) relatively low mishap rate. Mishaps, and in particular, mishaps that result in the loss of some or…
♫♬…When the Drone is Called Up Yonder I’ll be There…♬♫ (with apologies to James M. Black) 😀 First the news and a congratulatory note to the Navy-Industry team behind today’s launch of the X-47B off the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77): Of course, as any end-of-deployment flyoff crew knows, it is a heck of…
Christmas comes at a time of year where we, perforce, count our blessings, tally our losses and generally reflect on the year past. We find this action common across national boundaries and racial divides and, all too commonly, it ends there. The accountant’s take of the past year and if the blessings outweigh the losses,…
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SJS-
I’ve posted my own tribute of sorts to Lex over at my blog, and wondered if perhaps you could link to it in your earlier post.
http://adonaisemperfi.blogspot.com/2012/03/requiescat-in-pace.html
Thanks very much,
-CH Dave “Padre” Harvey
As an avid reader of both you and Lex, I will be with everyone at this event in spirit as I raise my own pint of Guinness to those rare of breed. I will greatly miss his daily log of life and wish his family all the best. I feel confident he is testing the envelope with his new set of wings! God’s speed Lex.