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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
Okay....my cousin Jacqui is a USN carrier aviator (she flies F/A-18Es). I've relayed the question to her, and should have a reply in a day or two.
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At its heyday, the Lady Lex had an air group of roughly 80 aircraft (Korea). Her last air group before conversion into a training carrier consisted of two squadrons of S-2 Tracker ASW fixed-wing aircraft and a squadronof SH-3 Sea King ASW helos, all told about 45 aircraft.
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