The Hook - Responding to a Changing World - Spring 2002
Can A USS Kitty Hawk (CV•63) V-2 Division greenshirt signals "all system go" as he quickly clears away from a VS.21 541 Viking prior to a catapult launch for an Operation Enduring Freedom mission on 16 Nov '01.
USN photo by PHAN Ronald Gutridge, USN, via CHINFO
Table of Contents
3 BRIEF
3 Responding to a Changing World VADM T.M. "Mike" Bucchi, USN
6 Naval Aviation On Top in Afghanistan
VADM John B. Nathman, USN
11 The Carrier Response
RADM Isaac E. Richardson III, USN
12 From the Membership: "I Wish I'd Joined Earlier"
CDR Matthew J. Faletti, USN
13 From the Executive Director: Tailhook 2002
CAPT J.R. Davis, USN(Ret)
14 TAILHOOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
14 From the President: I Relieve You, Sir
VADM Mike "Shooter" Bowman, USN(Ret)
17 FROM THE CATWALK
17 From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook
19 A Sidewinder Adrift
RADM Paul T. Gillcrist, USN(Ret)
21 The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: Alfa-20-Romeo
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR( Ret), artwork l Snow
23 LAUNCH
23 A History of VAW-13/VAQ-130, Part I: Dragon in the Sky
LCDR Rick Morgan, USN(Ret)
35 The Great Smoking Thunderhog: McDonnell's F-4 Phantom II, Combat and Conversions
Bob Lawson
41 AT MARSHAL
41 Air Wing and Squadron Reports
58 Tomcat Treasury
61 RECOVERY
61 Commentary: Potomac Currents
Michael Dennis
62 Navy Receives Knighthawk Helicopter
LTJG Anne E. Cossit, USN
64 Navy Initiat .. an Flight Training Program
Vivienne Heines
65 IN REVIEW
67 RESPOT
67 The Way It Was: NAS Ellyson Field
CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
69 .. Class of Enlisted Combat Aircrewmen Honored
CAPT Ray Schultz, CHC, USNR(Ret)
71 WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
IBC PATCH PAGE
VAW-11 Detachment Insignia
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 Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
Mike Weeks
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
LCDR Ian Anderson, USN
Ted Carlson
Josh M. Ramos
CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
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