Just over one month since the aircraft's first
flight, representatives with Boeing told ANN Monday
the company delivered the first EA-18G Growler airborne electronic
attack (AEA) aircraft to the US Navy test site at Naval Air Station
Patuxent River, MD.
In one sense, it was a somewhat inglorious end to one of the
United States' most recognizable symbols of the Cold War; from
another perspective, however, Friday's retirement ceremony for the
US Navy's venerable F-14 Tomcat was a fitting example of, well, why
the aircraft is being retired.
As a woman in uniform, 35-year old Lisa Jane Phillips got a lot
of respect. She also got more than $41,000 in free tuition, wearing
the insignia of an Air Force captain. There's just one thing. Lisa
Jane Phillips was never in the military at all. It was all a
fake.
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