Jay Bolles Missions Quotations

The Navy tasked us with flying these adversary missions four to five times a year from NAS Fallon, Nev., but the costs of getting the adversary aircraft, pilots and maintenance staff out to NAS Key West was just getting too expensive. In order to save money we decided to establish a detachment of 12 jets permanently down in Key West.

As a matter of fact, the detachment just finished their first operational tasking flying air-to-air missions against Strike Fighter Squadron-106 (VFA-106) Super Hornets. They flew 158 flights in two weeks with eight aircraft.