The Hook - Naval Aviation Key to Iraqi Freedom - Winter 2003
Cover: Twilight for the Sea Control Community. With the retirement of the S-3, beginning in April 2004 with the deactivation of VS-29 and VS-38, the Navy's VS squadrons will be a thing of the past by 2009. Here, a VS-29 S-3B banks away into the sunset loaded out with a refueling pod and an AGM-65 Maverick missile while on a Dec '02 flight from NAS Fallon.
photo by CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
Table of Contents
BRIEF
- Naval Aviation Key to Iraqi Freedom Victory
VADM Timothy J. Keating, USN
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Central Command
Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet - Where are the Carriers?
- Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Payoff
RADM Mark Fitzgerald, USN
Director, Air Warfare (N78) - U.S. Navy Tactical and Tactical Support Squadrons
LCDR Rick Burgess, USN(Ret) - Naval Aviation: The Best Never Rest
CAPT Don Quinn, USN
Navy Personnel Command (Pers 43) - Executive Director's Report
CAPT J.R. Davis, USN(Ret)
TAILHOOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
FROM THE CATWALK
- From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: Jolly, Jolly Good!
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow - Where Are They Now? Mugs McKeown
Barrett Tillman
LAUNCH
- Flying the Vigilante
CDR R.R. "Boom" Powell, USN(Ret) - Tailhook Aircraft From Mr. Grumman's Iron Works: Part Four 1953-1959
Bob Lawson
AT MARSHAL
- Command Changes
- Air Wing and Squadron Reports
RECOVERY
- Washington Report: Military Planners Examine Future of Naval Warfare
Sandra I. Erwin - Navy Sets Transition Plan for New Helicopters
LCDR Richard R. Burgess, USN(Ret) - Sundown for the War Hoover
CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
IN REVIEW
RESPOT
- USS Midway Museum Grand Opening Nears
WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- What Is It?
Steve Millikin and Hal Andrews - Hook Index, 2003
IBC PATCH PAGE
- RA-5C Vigilante Squadrons and Home Stations
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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
Ted Carlson
Rick Llinares
Jose M. Ramos
CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
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