I was Navy and one of my regrets is never seeing the Blue Angels perform when they flew the Phantom.
Blue Angel’s were some bad hombres! They would take off all together in formation. Never understood how their slot pilot could see through all of that exhaust!! Saw them a few years back in their F-18 Super Hornets in San Francisco. They opened with a low level pass at speed from behind us and scared the bejesus out of everyone.