The Hook - The A-7 Corsair II - Fall 1991
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 3, FALL 1991
©1991 all rights reserved
ISSN: 0736-9220
ON THE COVER:
A flight of VMFA-134 F/A-18A Hornets during recent Active Duty for Training on the TACTS range near MCAS Yuma.
Photo by Robert L. Lawson
TABLE OF CONTENTS : AIR PLAN
- BRIEF
- War at Sea During Desert Storm
RADM R.J. Zlatoper, USN, ComCarGruSeven - From the President
CAPT F.G. "Wigs" Ludwig, USN
- War at Sea During Desert Storm
- FROM THE CATWALK
- Terror in the Eye of the Bull's-Eye
MAJ Dennis A. Cavagnaro, USMC(Ret) - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome
CDR Jack D. WOOdul, USNR(Ret)
- Terror in the Eye of the Bull's-Eye
- LAUNCH
- Fighting Two-The Flying Chiefs/Part Two, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea
CAPT William E. ScarborOugh, USN(Ret) - Flying the Brewster F2A-3 with Fighting Two
CDR HOward S. "Pack" Packard, USN(Ret) - No Slack in Light Attack/The A-7 Corsair II in Fleet Service, Part Two
LT Mark L. Morgan, USNR - A Close Call Off Formosa
Dick Jordan - Tribute to a Naval Aviator
Thomas Thomson
- Fighting Two-The Flying Chiefs/Part Two, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea
- AT MARSHAL
- Command Changes
- Heroes of the Gulf
Photo essay by AZ2 Alan Warner, USN - Tomcatting NAVCADS/Who Said You Need a Degree to Fly the F-14?
LCDR BOb Frantz, USNR - Night Attack Harriers to VMA-211
Photo Essay by BOb Lawson
- MANNING THE SPARE
- West Coast Reserves Deploy to Fallon
Photo Essay by Jan Jacobs and Bob Lawson - Smokin' in the Desert
Photo Essay by Bob Lawson
- West Coast Reserves Deploy to Fallon
- RESPOT
- RECOVERY
- IN REVIEW
- WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- INSIGNIA PAGE
- Naval Air Reserve 75th Anniversary, Reserve Carrier Air Wing 30
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- MANAGING EDITOR : Jan C. Jacobs
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- Barrett Tillman
- CWO4 Carl Snow, USN(Ret)
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- Barrett Tillman
- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
- CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
- CDR Pete Clayton, USN
- Hal Andrews
- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
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- Bruce R. Trombecky
- Keith Snyder
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