Or at least that was the plan. This being the Prowler, they flew two down and had to wait another day for the other two because of mechanical problems. Tupper and Vinnie Johnson were getting along well. Vinnie loved Churchill and the Greek stoic Epictetus, while Tupper was working his way through Malcolm Gladwell and a Horatio Nelson biography. They both could babble endlessly about leadership and organization building well past the saturation point of their men, so it was good that they had each other. Vinnie had started as a helo pilot, transitioning to Prowlers after he turned thirty. Switching platforms in midcareer wasn’t easy, and Vinnie was known as a hard worker and a blue-collar pilot, the last part a backhanded compliment. As a junior Prowler pilot, Vinnie had been flying the second jet in a four-Prowler formation approaching NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach. The lead jet slipped out of the pattern and dropped down on Vinnie. The jet wash forced his plane down onto the runway.
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