As the readership may know, your blogmeister has a thing for Cats of the two-tail variety as well as 'purty pikshurs... so today we present a B-U-T-FULL snap of a pair'a Tomcats from VF-33, the Starfighters, near a place called Coffin Island, Puerto Rico back on April 1st, 1990.
VF-33 was at the time embarked aboard USS America (CV-66) as part of Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1). Over the years, many an enthusiast has mistakenly attributed the callsign 'Tarbox' specifically to VF-33... 'tis not so... VF-33's tactical callsign at that time was 'Starfighter', while 'Tarbox' was the callsign for CVW-1. But an air wing's callsign could be adopted by any squadron of the wing under certain circumstances. The more you know...
Nomenclature, Baby!
U.S. Navy photo by LCDR K. P. Neubauer
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