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VA-163 "Saints" Onboard USS Oriskany CVA-34
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Photo
on Flight Deck, USS Oriskany CVA-34, during pause of flight operations, Gulf of Tonkin, off coast of Viet Nam, 1967
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| Onboard USS Oriskany, Nov. 20, 1967 |
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| VA-163 Emergency Barricade Landing on Oriskany, Gulf of Tonkin |
Navy
pilot Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Denny Earl, with both legs shattered by North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire, successfully
lands his A-4E Skyhawk attack plane aboard the Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin, 20 November 1967. The nylon
emergency barrier assures the wounded pilot that he will not have to make more than one attempt to land his plane. Photographed
by PHC Neal Crowe. The crew of the Oriskany and VA-163 had just left Yokosuka and Tokyo, Japan 10 days earlier
on Nov. 10th.
 
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NAS Lemoore was commissioned in 1961 and it became Dennis's
home port five years later in 1966. Lemoore is the newest air station in the Navy and has two offset parallel runways
which are out 4,600 feet apart. Aircraft parking and maintenance hangars are between the 13,500 foot runways. Separated from
the hangars by underpasses beneath taxiways the air operations area is located directly southeast. In July, 1998, NAS Lemoore
was selected as the West Coast site for the Navy’s newest strike-fighter aircraft, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. This
action brings approximately 92 additional aircraft to Lemoore and 1,850 additional active duty personnel and 3,000 family
members. The Navy brought four new fleet squadrons to Naval Air Station Lemoore over the period 2001-2004. Current Operations NAS Lemoore hosts the Navy's entire
west coast fighter/attack capability.
It was built “from the ground up” as
a Master Jet Base, and has several
operational advantages, and relatively few constraints,
as a result.
NAS Lemoore is the Navy's newest and largest master jet air station. The
Pacific Strike Fighter Wing with its supporting facilities are home ported
here. The primary aircraft based at NAS Lemoore is the F/A-18 Hornet
Strike Fighter.
In November, 1999, NAS Lemoore received its first F/A-18
E/F Super Hornets, which replaced
the F-14 Tomcat in fleet service as an
air superiority fighter and has assumed, in a
different configuration, the
role of older F/A-18 Strike Fighters. Currently, there are
a total of 175
Hornets and Super Hornets home-based at NAS Lemoore operating from two
Fleet Replacement [training] Squadrons and ten Fleet [operational]
Squadrons.
Tenant Units
Carrier Wings
Pacific Strike Fighter Wing
Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2), assigned to: USS Abraham
Lincoln (CVN-72)
Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9), assigned to: USS John C. Stennis
(CVN-74)
Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11), assigned to: USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14), assigned to: USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
Squadrons
VFA-2 Strike Fighter Squadron
2
VFA-14 Strike Fighter Squadron 14
VFA-22 Strike Fighter Squadron 22
VFA-25 Strike Fighter Squadron 25
VFA-27
Strike Fighter Squadron 27
VFA-41 Strike
Fighter Squadron 41
VFA-94 Strike Fighter
Squadron 94
VFA-97 Strike Fighter Squadron
97
VFA-102 Strike Fighter Squadron 102
VFA-113 Strike Fighter Squadron 113
VFA-115 Strike Fighter Squadron 115
VFA-122 Strike Fighter Squadron 122
VFA-125
Strike Fighter Squadron 125
VFA-137 Strike
Fighter Squadron 137
VFA-146 Strike Fighter
Squadron 146
VFA-147 Strike Fighter Squadron
147
VFA-151 Strike Fighter Squadron 151
VFA-154 Strike Fighter Squadron 154
VFA-192 Strike Fighter Squadron 192
VFA-195 Strike Fighter Squadron 195
Tenant Activities
Strike Fighter Wing Pacific
Strike Fighter Weapons School Pacific
Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department
AIMD Sea Operational Detachment
Fleet
Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group, Pacific Fleet
Marine Aviation
Training Support Group
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new page on this website, here at http://www.va-163saints.com/id99.html in page: Evolution of American aircraft carriers. See Patrick Turners "Several
Screens in Size" illustration of the Inside of an Aircraft Carrier.
| Ocean View as seen through Porthole of Ship |
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This web site, which is designed and contains photos
by Dennis D. Lund, is the largest and most complete collection of WestPac Navy pictures", clips,
and Navy documents and Records on the internet! Except for "one page" with links and Credits
to additonal albums, all others are owned by Dennis D. Lund. This web site has background music, and
8mm videos taken of flight operations within the Gulf of Tonkin off Viet Nam. Attack Squadron VA-163 was based
at Lemoore, California which was the Navy's newest Naval Air Station in late '65 - '69. The
Air base is located 45 miles southwest of Fresno, CA in the middle of the desert.
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| In Memory: Charles J. Dorschak, "CAG" |
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| March 13, 1946 - September 10, 2009 |
"Click on the above Picture"
to view an album of pictures donated by my former shipmate and friend, "Charlie", Charles J. Dorschak.
This album contains pictures from the Fire and Explosions onboard the USS Oriskany, CVA-34 on Oct. 26, 1966. Charlie
took these pictures and movies, which he passed to me. Charlie was a Yeoman, who worked for VA-163, Carrier
Air Group Pilot Commander Burton H.Shephard. Charlie "Cag" Dorschak was from
Clark, NJ and spent most of his post Navy years living and working, in Zavalla, TX. I lost my friend, who I knew
from 1967, last month on September 10, 2009. He lost his battle with cancer, and passed away at the VA Hospital
in Houston, Texas. He had worked for Fabian Seafood Co. for many years and was well liked by all his fellow employees
at Fabian as well as those he knew in VA-163. We miss you, Charlie!
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| "Click on Image" Aircraft Carrier USS Oriskany CVA-34 |
Navigation on and inside the Aircraft Carrier USS Oriskany CVA-34, a U.S. essex
class aircraft carrier. The flight deck is also known as the 03 Deck or the 3rd Deck above the Hangar Bay Main Deck.
Above the Flight Deck or 03 Deck is the 04 Deck, the 05 Deck (Flag Bridge), 06 Deck (Navigation Bridge), and lastly the 07
Deck known as Vulture's Row. Men usually would gather on the 05 Deck, Flag Bridge to watch flight operations, launch
and recovery!!
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LIKE ALL NAVY SHIPS, ORISKANY IS COMPARTMENTALIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A
DEFINITE SYSTEM OF NUMBERING AND CODING. THE SECRET OF FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND IS TO LEARN THE SIMPLE CODE AND NUMBER
SYSTEM. The ship is divided into three sections - ALPHA (forward), BRAVO (midships), CHARLIE (aft). ALPHA includes
the area from frames 1 through 79, BRAVO - Frames 79 - 150, CHARLIES - Frames 150 - 208. These letters will be
the first symbol in any compartment designation. The next part of the designation will be numbers, indicating the deck
and location (odd numbers to starboard, even numbers to port side of ship). As an example, let's take two typical
(fictitious) compartment numbers - A-304-L and B-0237-E. The "A" tells us that the space is in the ALFA forward
section of the ship. The first digit "3" tells us that it is on the third deck. The rest of the number "04"
tells us that it's on the port side (even number) and it is forward of any "HIGHER" numbers, "AFT" of
any lower numbers. The "L" indicates the type of space, in this case it indicates a "living" space
or compartment. The second compartment locates itself as follows: "B" - Brave Section, "02"level
or two decks above the hangar deck or main deck. "37" - position in compartment sequence, and (odd) on the
starboard side of ship. The "E" means it is a machinery space.
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| What does it look like inside a carrier? |
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| Cutaway View of Inside of Carrier - Bow torwards Aft |
USS Oriskany Shipboard Facts: The Oriskany is 911 feet long and it's displacement is
45,000 tons. It's four steam turbine engines, fed by eight boilers, delivers 150,000 horsepower to the ship's four screws.
Oriskany is capable of speeds of 30 knots plus (top speed confidential) with a daily fuel consumption of 90,000 gallons. The
ship's engineering plant operates diesel generators which can produce 5,000 kilowatts per hour, enough electricity to serve
the needs of a small city. This floating city's utilities also include: 1,000 telephones, enough electrical
cable to reach from New York to Los Angeles, a 120,000 gallons per day distilling plant to convert sea water to
fresh water. 2. The CREW totals 2,100 ships company enlisted men and 115 officers. The
embarked Air Wing numbers 1,000 enlisted men and 140 officers. These 3,350 Navymen and Marines daily consume
2,000 pounds of meat, 2,600 eggs; 600 pounds of potatoes, 83 pounds of lettuce and 420 pounds of bread. These 9,000
daily meals are topped off by 50 pounds of cake or 300 pies per meal and washed down with 400 gallons of coffee, and
350 gallons of fruit or vegetable juice.
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