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Re:Why Did the F-14 Tomcat Retire Decades Before Its Peers? ... by CH1jZci6jV on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:24PM (#33395812)
It's fun to have been a part of history in that way though. And when I have some kind of career advancement I always throw up a "mission accomplished" banner as a joke.
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Re:Why Did the F-14 Tomcat Retire Decades Before Its Peers? ... by ethbr0 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:21PM (#33397117)
290 days with prep for a presidential visit at the end is a helluva deployment. Nice to see Wikipedia records the sacrifice: https://web.archive.org/web/20120328094805/http://www.av8rst... And looks like the captain made flag, so apparently someone was happy. ;)
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