[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Dude, I was on the GW (CVN-73) in the Gulf War! We didn’t lose any planes, but we lost a helicopter in the Persian Gulf. It lost engine power, crashed about 5 miles from the carrier, and the crew was all picked up OK. There’s a bit of irony that the copter was photographed a couple days before it crashed and has a prominent photo in the cruise book.

[cva66snipe]

Still compared to ops in my time that was a low number. He was in a squadron out of Oceania and worked on the planes on board avionics best I remember.

We were on alert in 1979 for Iran. We were lucky and JFK got the short straw and had to make the trip down and around to the PG. Following the Six Day War no carriers used the Suez until 1981. Carriers back then going to the PG wasn't ideal because the air conditioning plants {chillers} couldn't keep up with the heat load. That in turn messed up the electronics. They had to eventually upgrade the east coast carriers cooling capacity to handle it. We got our upgrade in 1980.