Lae Salamaua turned out to be a morale booster, but it contained an important lesson, one which the Navy has gone to great lengths to forget. He touches on that lesson at the end. It comes from Jimmy Thatch, let fighters be fighters.
Today the Navy has the F/A-18. That's F/A for fighter /attack, putting bomb missions on the wings of their fighters. BTW, the Air Force does the same stupid thing. Our military inventory does not contain a true pure fighter. Yup, we are sending our brightest and best out to do battle with a Spork.
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