{"id":12819,"date":"2006-02-24T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/last-tomcat-recovery-from-combat-mission\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:11:00","slug":"last-tomcat-recovery-from-combat-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/last-tomcat-recovery-from-combat-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Tomcat Recovery From Combat Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/features\/0,15240,88041,00.html?ESRC=navy.nl\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"F-14 Tomcat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/f-14_sundown.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><br \/>A couple of weeks ago there was another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/features\/0,15240,88041,00.html?ESRC=navy.nl\" target=\"_blank\">sad milestone in the history of the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voodoo.cz\/tomcat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grumman F-14 Tomcat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A chapter in naval aviation history drew to a close Feb. 8 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the last recovery of an F-14 Tomcat from a combat mission. <\/p>\n<p>Piloted by Capt. William G. Sizemore II, commander, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 8, Fighter Squadron (VF) 213\u2019s aircraft 204 was trapped at 12:35 a.m. and marked one of the final stages of the Navy\u2019s transition from the F-14 to F\/A-18 E\/F Super Hornet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I&rsquo;ve mentioned before, the Tomcat is my favorite military aircraft, so seeing it go through its &ldquo;sundown&rdquo; phase has been a bit sad&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114075668966413946?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago there was another sad milestone in the history of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat: A chapter in naval aviation history drew to a close Feb. 8 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) with the last recovery of an F-14 Tomcat from a combat mission. Piloted by Capt. William G. Sizemore II, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/last-tomcat-recovery-from-combat-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Tomcat Recovery From Combat Mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}