It takes an incredible amount of intestinal fortitude to take off from the deck of a ship, and a little more to land on a pitching deck.
No matter how hard a Naval Aviator might be, trying to land on that same pitching deck in the middle of a storm after you learn that your landing gear was ripped off is enough to rattle the cool of any man- and it takes an even cooler individual to help talk you back onto the ship.
Fortunately for one aviator, that “cooler individual” was Commander John “Bug” Roach, a cowboy maverick of legendary fame and the coolest of cats when it came to a crisis.
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