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HC-3 surpassed 30 years and 170,000 Class A mishap-free flight hours.

HMM-161 surpassed 40,000 Class A mishap-free flight hours.

TRAWING-2 CO Capt. Tom Hills reached his 1,000th trap while flying a T-45A Goshawk goshawk: see hawk.
goshawk

Any of the more powerful accipiters (hawks in the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers. Best known is the northern goshawk, which reaches about 2 ft (60 cm) in length with a 4.3-ft (1.
 aboard Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on 23 June.

The Fighting Omars of VFC-12, above, took their F/A-18 Hornets to the skies over NAS (1) See network access server.

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 Fallon, Nev., in April with a new mission. Fighting their way into the various target complexes and delivering weapons on target, the Omars executed their first air-to-ground detachment.

The Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS 12) Museum commemorated the 35th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 11. Hornet (CV 12) was the prime recovery ship for the Apollo 11 and 12 missions in July 1969. The ship is now a public museum in Alameda, Calif. During the celebration, Splashdown splash·down  
n.
The landing of a spacecraft or missile in water.


splashdown
Noun

the landing of a spacecraft on water at the end of a flight

Verb

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 2004, museum personnel invited the key recovery team members to a public reunion. The two remaining Apollo 12 astronauts, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean, were guest speakers.

The Liberty Bells of VAW-115 dedicated a memorial to a fallen Navy pilot, Lt. Thomas Adams, in the Officers Club at NAF Atsugi, Japan, on 16 July. Designed by fellow pilot Lt. Jeremy Rich, the memorial is a propeller blade bearing the inscription, "Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few." Adams was flying an SH-3 Sea King The Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King (company designation S-61) is a twin-engined anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter. It served with the United States Navy and other forces, and continues to serve in many countries around the world.  during a fatal collision with another helicopter in the Arabian Gulf on 22 March 2003.

RAdm. David M. Architzel, Commander Operational Test and Evaluation (testing) operational test and evaluation - (OT&E) Formal testing conducted prior to deployment to evaluate the operational effectiveness and suitability of the system with respect to its mission.  Force, above, visited Marine Tiltrotor Test and Evaluation Squadron 22 at MCAS McCune-Albright syndrome (MCAS)
A genetic syndrome characterized in girls by the development of ovarian cysts and puberty before the age of 8, together with abnormalities of bone structure and skin pigmentation.

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 New River, N.C., in July and piloted an MV-22 Osprey.

Edited by JOSN Brandy Lewis
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