RE: How many here fly full-scale?
We should all try to keep the stories alive. While I served in the NAVY too late for Vietnam(although I was in bootcamp toward the end of hostilities), I heard plenty of stories from older shipmates, especially from some of the more talkative officers. I was in VA195 just after Mad Dog Williamson had left as skipper. Being a plane captain there, I heard enough to feel relief that he was gone(he ordered one pc to stand fast no matter what, and then he taxied his A7 onto the kid). Carrier life was a whole 'nother world "out there".