Thanks for sharing....
Noticing they're on the Teddy (cvn-71) gave me instant flashback to night I nearly lost my life and was with in 1/2 foot of being cut in 1/2 by an AE-6 landing, as I was doing plane captain duties fixing to launch 1 of our vikings which was parked right on the side of the island right in front of the 71 painted on the side...as I was backing up to get clearance to have my pilot pull forward to turn him over to the yellow shirt to guide him up to cat 2... I didn't see the AE-6 coming in to land, Torres one of the 3 spotters tackled me to the deck and pointed back at the AE-6 that just landed catching the 3 wire...I had backed up to far crossing the red/white line...if he had not tackled and drove me 7 to 8 feet back towards the island...that AE-6 would have cut me in 1/2 and the 3rd wire would have cut me off at the flight deck boots....
Good to see the Black Knights are still going even though they are vmf-154 now instead of vf-154 Black Knights and they no longer have their Tomcats....
The VF-154 Black Knights is one of the reasons I named the squad I created back in AirWarrior after them...that and the fact that my high school mascot was "The Black Knights".... we had over 30+ flying regularly back then when SM (Snowman) asked me and our group to merge with the Eagles squad then we merged both into the Damned...
Again, thanks for sharing and bringing back some memories
TC
