Alone and unafraid, even if it’s only flying over the skies of the southwest USA.
From the olden days of beards and bellbottoms, ordnancemen are seen earning their pay.
“To each his own” the old saying goes, and that idiom certainly applies to the unique looks of the A-6 Intruder. However, like a pin-up girl with somewhat inverted proportions (wide up front and skinny in the rear), the design of the A-6 would always appeal to a certain breed of man. Nothing wrong with that.
Here are a few shots from VA-196 “The Main Battery” – legendary attack squadron of the US Navy – taken in the late 1970s-early ’80s.
The Jive Bomber 