The Hook - Next Generation Naval Air Reserve Force - Fall 2002
Cover: A CVW-1 LSO casts a watchful eye as a VAW-123 Screwtops E-2C Hawkeye traps on board USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) after a 23 Jan '02 Operation Enduring Freedom mission. photo by PHC Dennis D. Taylor, USN, via CHINFO
Table of Contents
5 The Next Generation Naval Air Reserve Force
RADM John P. McLaughlin, USNR
Commander, Naval Reserve Forces Command
7 From the Chairman: Tailhook Association At Your Service RADM Fred Lewis, USN(Ret)
10 I'll Take the Boat
LT Matthew B. Ross, USN
11 From the Executive Director: What a Great Tailhook Reunion! .... Davis, USN(Ret)
12 Justice at Last: Bob Stumpf Approved for Promotion to Captain
Vivienne Heines
14 FROM THE CATWALK,
14 From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook
16 Where are the Carriers?
17 The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome:
Sounds Like a Personal Problem
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow
20 The Norwegian Lady
RADM Paul T. Gillcrist, USN(Ret)
22 LAUNCH
22 Medal of Honor Tailhookers
Barrett Tillman
28 VF-661's 1968 Recall: Impossible! I'd Be GiampaOlO AgOstinelliM Lemuel 0. "Buz" Warfield, USNR(Ret)
32 Command Changes
33 Air Wing and Squadron Reports
36 Carrier Air Wing Three on the Fly Giampaolo Agostinelli
57 A Day With the Sharpshooters LCOL Don Tooker, USMC(Ret)
58 IN REVIEW
61 RESPOT
61 Tailhook '02 Report: They Came to Reno
Barrett Tillman and Rick Morgan
68 Naval Aviation in OEF: Human Skills Surpass High Tech Weaponry
Sandra I. Erwin
71 WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
71 What Is It?
Steve Millikin and Hal Andrews
IBC PATCH PAGE
The Golden Age of Naval Aviation
EDITOR
CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret)
MANAGING EDITOR
CDR Jan C. Jacobs, USNR(Ret)
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CAPT Wynn F. Foster, USN(Ret)
Barrett Tillman
Carmelle Carter
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Hal Andrews
Margaret Bone
CDR DouBuhlmannied, USN(Ret)
Mike Weeks
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
CDR Ian Anderson, USN
Ted Carlson
Rick LlinCommandM. Ramos
CDR Chris Buh[mann, USNR
Pinning by Ncycnesch Printers
San Mello. Calif.
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