That’s pretty cool. How much overlap and training is required to to get carrier certified? Was yours under emergency or why would they let you play in their sandbox?
Oh I’m not a flyer. Just a computer/crypto geek. My unit and the Stennis exchanged radar air pictures and data links in support of Operation Southern Watch so we did a troop exchange to see “the other side.”
Poor Navy guys got to go to the desert in the middle of nowhere.