The Hook - Marine MV-22 Ospreys - Fall 2006
Cover: Cover: A VFA-154 Black Knights F/A-18F Super Hornet tours NAS Fallon's Bravo-10 target during CVW-9's 2006 Air Wing Fallon training. Crewing NG 100 was LTs Tyler "Sassy" Tennille and Darin "Bahgak" Dean.
photo by CAPT(sel) Chris Bulhmann, USNR
Table of Contents
BRIEF
- The Dog Arrives at Tailhook
LCDR Rex A Schildhouse, USN(Ret) - Farewell to the Hook
CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret) - Tailhook at 50
Barrett Tillman - From the Executive Director: 2006 Tailhook Reunion
CAPT J.R. Davis, USN(Ret)
TAILHOOK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
- On the Bridge
RADM Ham Tallent, USN(Ret)
FROM THE CATWALK
- From the Catwalk
conducted by "Boom" Powell - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: The Long Green Table (Almost)
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow
LAUNCH
- VAQ-131 — A Half Century and Counting
Part II — Combat Proven: VAQ-131 and the EA-6B
Rick Morgan - VAQ-131 EA-6B Deployments
- Marine MV-22 Ospreys Make First Trans-Atlantic Self-Deployment
Margaret Bone
AT MARSHAL
- Air Wing and Squdron Reports
- CVW-9 Takes on Air Wing Fallon
CAPT(sel) Chris Bulhmann, USNR
RECOVERY
- Washington Report: Navy Seeks to Articulate Its Value to the Nation's Defense
Sandra I. Erwin
IN REVIEW
RESPOT
- VS-41 Shamrocks Deactivate
CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret) - 70 EA-18G Growler Progresses Toward The Fleet
WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- What Is It?
IBC PATCH PAGE
- VS-41 Farewell
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EDITOR
LCDR Rex A Schildhouse, USN(Ret)
MANAGING EDITOR
CDR Jan C. Jacobs, USNR(Ret)
EDITOR EMERITUS
CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret)
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
CDR Robert R. "Boom" Powell, USN(Ret)
Barrett Tillman
Phyllis Carter
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Hal Andrews
LCDR Richard R. Burgess, USN(Ret)
CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
Mike Weeks
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
CONTRIBUTING
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Rick Llinares
Jose M. Ramos
CAPT(sel) Chris Buhlmann, USNR
Ted Carlson
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