Thanks to Warriors Born of 9-11
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Early on the morning of September 11, 2001 I was lecturing a group of Naval Academy midshipmen on the fact that life in the fleet is much more uncertain than life at Annapolis. I used one of my sea stories as an example -- the one where my squadronmates and I were crossing the Atlantic aboard USS America (CV 66) thinking we were on our way to a fairly predictable peacetime Mediterranean deployment only to wind up spending most of the time flying strikes over Bosnia. . . .
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001 I was lecturing a group of Naval Academy midshipmen on the fact that life in the fleet is much more uncertain than life at Annapolis. I used one of my sea stories as an example -- the one where my squadronmates and I were crossing the Atlantic aboard USS America (CV 66) thinking we were on our way to a fairly predictable peacetime Mediterranean deployment only to wind up spending most of the time flying strikes over Bosnia. . . .