A Bridge Too Far
By Lieutenant B. W. Stone, USN
Recent efforts to "balance" current and future readiness in naval aviation have cut too far into current capabilities. Operational and flight-training budget reductions and aircraft retirements—including the S-3 Viking, whose aerial refueling missions must be assumed by the Super Hornet—could leave air wings unprepared and ill equipped for action against enemies stronger than those they recently have faced.
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Lieutenant Stone is an F/A-18 pilot on the staff of Carrier Air Wing 11. Embarked aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), Air Wing 11 is, because of the retirement of the S-3 and "excess" Hornets, the smallest air wing in the U.S. Navy.
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