Need an updated file photo because the following aircraft on that flight deck are now retired: F-14, S-3 Viking, EA-6B Prowler, F/A-18 B and C.
I wish them every success and safety, but in an age of surface to surface missiles they are floating targets.
“Tower,this Ghostrider requesting a flyby...”
It’s going to arrive in DaNang VN within the next 3 days. No US Carrier has been there since 1975 and it’s certain to gain a lot of attention in Beijing.
The whole Battle Group will do a port call there.
And the US Congress lifted all military export conditions for Viet Nam in 2016. They are eligible to buy the F-35 and other US Weapons Systems.
That’s a big friggin’ deal.
China better watch out, or we’ll ram them with one of our destroyers.
China, now there’s a threat. Unlike Syria.
Hope they don’t get T-boned by a freighter!
That would be the third in a short time over there.
And the Navy was once a proud organization.