More recently, last month, as I was aboard USS MIDWAY for a retirement ceremony.
Still love walking aboard a ship!
I know it sounds odd, but it's both familiar and exciting.
After the ceremony, I took some time out to speak wth a group of Boy Scouts, who were there for an overnight stay aboard. An impromptu tour of the F-14 and a discussion on leadership and the importance, as well as relevance, of scouting principles.
The hot blonde Captain to my right is Mrs. Astro...
This was CAC-11 before a patrol flight leaving from a Canadian Air Force on Prince Edward Island. This was in the summer of 1966. I am the second from the right on the front row kneeling. Skinny then at 21 years old. The plane was a P2V Neptune. Home base was NAS Brunswick, Me.