Vampyre

It is CVW-1's motto. It means "First and Foremost" in Latin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Air_Wing_One

This will ring familiar with anyone in the military who is involved with aircraft maintnance. I laughed so hard at this one. Ignore the simplistic animation and just listen to what is being said. While this is geared toward the Air Force it also applies equally to the Navy (my branch) and, unfortunatly, it is all true.

Very nice Dave. whats next... The F-5E? Shar hammering a C-130E Front row seat Fearless Gazelle bounding for home

The big question is what time periods are we looking at here? A late 70's deck will have either F-14s or F-4's as the primary fighter with A-6's and A-7's as medium and light attack respectivly. You can also find the E-2/C-2's, H-3's, S-3's, EA-6B's, EKA-3's, and RA-5C's. A mid 80's deck will have F-14's as the fighters. F/A-18A or A-7's will fulfill the light attack duties. The A-6 will still be medium attack. Then you are looking at having the E-2/C-2's, S-3's, EA-6B's, and maybe an EKA-3. It will be a toss up between the H-3 and H-60 platforms with the odds favoring the H-3. A Mid 90's carrier will be F-14's, F/A-18C, S-3's, E-2/C-2's, H-60's, and EA-6B's. In 2001 the Abe Lincoln had an air wing with F-14D's, F/A-18E's, F/A-18C's, S-3B's, EA-6B's, H-60's, and E-2/C-2's. A current air wing has a F/A-18F, F/A-18E, two F/A-18C squadrons, plus the H-60's E-2/C-2's and either an EA-18G or EA-6B squadron. CVW-5 on the GW will be the first all Super Hornet/Growler wing with no legacy hornets in the mix. It will still have the E-2/C-2, and H-60's. in 2016 the F-35 will supposedly be in the mix too possibly taking the place of two of the Legacy Hornet squadrons from the current air wing set up. Now if you wanted to go into other carriers such as Midway, Independance, Ranger, or Coral Sea, they had some interesting mixes of plane types as well... especially in the early 80's.

Wheels Up! Who the hell had the brilliant idea of having light attack aircraft attack warships... I'm going to jettison my dinged Pucara right over his house! Hunting with the big stick... AM39 Exocet! Good thing there are no Shar's around to see me clubbing this baby seal. Sorry for dinging your beautiful paint job EricJ. I was bounced by four Su-27's on takeoff. I managed to kill three of them with two AIM-9M's and a Phoenix. The fourth one got me with an Aphid C but my wingman got the fourth one before he could finish me off. I stopped the mission right after this screenshot as I knwe exactly what would have happened if I actually put the other side down. Tornado GR4 ready to rain fire and Brimstones