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Mark's Navy Flying Days

From mid-1975 through the end of 1979 Mark served in the U.S. Navy stationed at NAS Whidbey Island flying as a Flight Officer in the Grumman A6E Intruder.  During this period Mark had two full at-sea periods with Medium Attack Squadron Fifty-Two(VA-52) on the carrier U.S.S. Kittyhawk.

a6_oaks.jpg (101890 bytes) A6E over home town, Thousand Oaks, CA., circa 1977
a6e_s3.jpg (30020 bytes) A6E tanking S3 Viking, circa 1978
cockpit.jpg (48975 bytes) Lt. Bell in A6E, Carrier USS Kitty Hawk, circa 1979