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.

Articles by B. W. Stone

U.S. NAVY (ROLAND FRANKLIN/USS NIMITZ)

A Bridge Too Far

By Lieutenant B. W. Stone, USN
February 2005
Naval aviation is suffering because the Fleet Response Plan is not delivering on all its promises to do more for less.