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re: On this Date in History (June 26, 1942) Hellcat is Born
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:37 am to jamiegla1
Posted on 6/27/21 at 10:37 am to jamiegla1
For those that don't know Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette is one of the many incarnations of UL Lafayette. They change their name about every 25 years.
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Posted on 6/27/21 at 11:05 am to DesScorp
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It was supposedly so Iran couldn’t get them for parts, but I think that was just the public excuse.
The issue of Iran obtaining spare parts was a genuine concern.
"Since December 1984, the FBI said, federal investigators have intercepted over a dozen cartons containing hundreds of pounds and over two dozen parts for the F-14 Tomcat."
Link to article on stolen parts
When I was living in Va Beach, there was a sailor charged with stealing an F-14 flight computer. The Navy and its investigators wasted no efforts in its search for the suspect(s) and the part. It was later found at the bottom of a nearby pond. The story got a lot of attention at that time and this was before the shutdown of parts to Iran.
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