And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
F-14 Tomcat from CAW-8.
ReplyDeleteUsed to run laps around those on the hangar deck.
ReplyDeleteBig, bad, beautiful! My favorite aircraft and that was before Top Gun! Hell, I wasn’t even in the navy, I was airborne and I still loved this thing!
ReplyDeletelookit the exhaust pipes on that baby!
ReplyDeleteAJ was VF-103 (Jolly Rogers), part of CAG-17 back in the 2000 timeframe
ReplyDeleteNope, that was AA
ReplyDelete