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FYI for those interested. Press release from NAS Whidbey:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE 06-29
Sept. 12 2006

F/A-18 Hornet squadrons training over Olympic Peninsula

NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - Strike Fighter Squadron 125

(VFA-125) from Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, Calif., and Naval
Reserve Fighter Squadron Composite 12 (VFC-12) from NAS Oceana, Va.,
arrived here this weekend to begin routine training over the Olympic
Peninsula.

VFA-125, the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 Fleet Replacement Training Squadron,
sent 12 jets, while VFC-12 sent eight. This detachment brought about 200
military personnel. They will be flying multiple sorties a day, all in
daylight hours, now through late September.

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I guess thats why I heard a plane ask permission to vertical to 40k feet. I'm used to hearing EA6B's and P22's - vertical was a term I never heard.

-m

**LIMITED DISTRO**
**EYES ONLY**

VFA-125 RAIDER air-air 229.725
RAIDER Base 306.6

VFC-12 AMBUSH Base 354.95