The Hook - The Battle of Palmdale - Spring 2004
Cover: VAW-I 10 E-2C Hawkeye, BuNo 160415, banks over NAS Miramar on an 18 Apr '84 flight. The Firebirds were established on 20 Apr '67 as RVAW-110, the West Coast E-2 replacement squadron and home squadron for deploying E-lBs. It became UAW-110 on I May '83 and disestablished on 30 Sep '94. lifilCro-160211-5-served with UAW-120, UAW-110 and the Coast Guard before being placed in storage at Davis-Monthan AFB on 5 Oct '92.
Table of Contents
BRIEF
- The Navy's New Operational Construct
ADM William J. Fallon, USN - Fleet Response Plan and Naval Aviation
RADM Mark P. Fitzgerald, USN - From the President: Current Operations Update
CAPT David A. "Roy" Rogers, USN - From the Executive Director: Planning for Tailhook '04
CAPT J.R. Davis, USN(Ret)
TAILHOOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
FROM THE CATWALK
- From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook - U.S. Navy Support, Train Hoook and Aircraft Test Units
LCDR Rick Burgess, USN(Ret) - The Battle of Palmdale
Bob Wilson - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: Cheating Grampaw Pettibone
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow
LAUNCH
- CVG-101 and Boxer In Korea: "Where Do We Get Such Men?"
Rick Morgan - Tailhook Aircraft From Mr. Grumman's Iron Works: Vietnam — The Graveyard Spiral, Part Five — 1960-1969
Bob Lawson
AT MARSHAL
- Command Changes
- Air Wing and Squadron Reports
RECOVERY
- Washington Report: CVN-21 on Path to Begin Construction in 2007
Sandra I. Erwin - Midway Embarks on Final Mission
Scott McGaugh - Navy's 2005 Budget Begins Downsizing Trend
Sandra I. Erwin
IN REVIEW
RESPOT
- The Beginning of the End for the Viking
CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret) - Black Aces Homecoming
Cheryl Bly Chester
WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- What Is It?
Steve Millikin and Hal Andrews
IBC PATCH PAGE
- VS-29 and VS-38 Farewell
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©2004, all rights reserved ISSN: 0736-9220
VOLUME 32 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2004
photo by Bob Lawson
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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