[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Strapped into a A-6E Intruder with a full load of weapons, parked on Cat 2 of USS INDEPENDENCE, underway in the Indian Ocean, in Alert 15, ready to make sure the hostages were released.

(Bonus: The intel traffic was a hoot! The Iranian leadership was in such fear of President Regan that they couldn't change skivvies fast enough.)

[Denver Ditdat]

Strapped into a A-6E Intruder with a full load of weapons, parked on Cat 2 of USS INDEPENDENCE

I was aboard the Indy two years later with VS-28. Small world!