If you see the Marines attached to All-Weather Fighter Squadron
332 in Beaufort, NC, walking with a particular swagger these days,
indulge them. Congratulate them. They derserve it.
Two Super Hornets based at Naval Air Station Lemoore experienced
a mid-air collision while on a routine training mission July 18,
killing one naval aviator and injuring two. Lt. Bruce L. Clark of
Orange Park, Fla., 31, died in the incident.
As the summer breeze cooled him, Alexander Ryan thought of the
events that placed him deep in the heart of the Cascade Mountain
Range, and the five friends who braved the rugged terrain alongside
him. It would have been a perfect moment had it not been for the
searing pain throbbing through his left ankle.