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As of April 3rd, I will go on a flight to meet up with the USS Stennis. I will graduate from Pensacola on the Feburary 21st, and go to Oceana, VA to be trained on the various components of the F-14. This is my squadron's homeport, the VF-143 "Pukin Dogs".
Unfortunately due to taking 7 days of leave during Christmas, I probably won't be allowed to take any leave until the USS Stennis returns from the cruise.
Technically I'm not going to war, if there will be war. This is because normally, E-2s on their first cruise usually does galley work. Washing pots, serving for 8 hours for 3 months. Sounds like fun. I did it in Boot Camp for 14 hours a day for 7 days.
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Pukin Dogs?
Couldn't you get yourself assigned to a squad with a less stranger name? Like say, the Suicide Kings?
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Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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A little history..
VF-143 Pukin' Dogs stood up as a squadron in April 1976 & assigned to USS America along with VF-142 Ghost Rider as part of CVW-6. In those days, high-vis markings were still the norm (I love high-vis markings) & they used 3 thin blue diagonal stripes on the fuselage sides & upper vertical fin, along with slashes of blue on the fin & a winged horse. As part of CVW-6, they shared the AE tail code.
In January 1979, they transferred to CVW-7 aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower & were assigned the AG code. I THINK they might have been sent on to Ranger or Kitty Hawk in the mid-80s, & then to Abraham Lincoln in the early 90s, & finally from there to John C. Stennis.
Show the pilot's Masao's Minotaur art designs. Maybe we can get one of them to do a low-vis version on his plane.
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My friend's stepmother has a dachshund that regularly vomits and reingests the contents of its stomach. Want me to get a picture of that to use?
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The Stennis... I think that just left. My ship is part of the Nimitz Battle Group which is about to head to the gulf in a few days.
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According to a friend of mine on the destroyer Douglas, the Stennis isn't scheduled to leave for some time yet. Mayhap you're thinking of another flattop?
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They haven't told me crap of where the USS Stennis is. At first they told me the entire squadron was down because of general repair. (F-14s have a saying "If it's not leaking, it's empty).
I'll find out when I leave on 21FEB03.
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