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Bill - Standing Beside Screaming
Eagle 100
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These pictures
were taken in the early summer of 1988. This was the beginning of
a six month deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. At
that time I was the Avionics Branch Supervisor with the "Screaming
Eagles" of Fighter Squadron Fifty One (VF-51), aboard the nuclear
powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
We were on our
way to our ultimate destination of the North Arabian Sea in support of
Operation Earnest Will. Our job was to escort re-flagged Kuwaiti
tanker ships through the Straits of Hormuz. Iraq and Iran were at
war, and all Kuwaiti tankers were re-flagged with US flags and protected
by our fighter jets as they transited through the straits. Our first part of the
deployment was spent in the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands doing
carrier qualifications - where the pilots practiced shipboard landings
in extreme conditions -
and various other tests to
get us ready for going "on-station."
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all photographs on this page taken by:
W. P. Flinn
(c) 1988
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