Gentlemen (and ladies as well):
We have a friend of the family down here who was a USMC F-4B/J/S pilot in the mid to late 70s. About 18 months ago he succumbed to cancer, with a lot of attendant issues. His wife had some questions about his flight logbooks a week or so ago and I was privileged to be invited to take a look at them. I figured the aircraft type, BuAer no., flight duration, point of origin and destination etc would be in the log, and was aware they would probably be a little different from civilian logbooks. One thing that stuck out immediately to me was a column in the smaller logbook from the Nov-Dec '73 time frame that listed what amounted to "type flight." This column had entries that included, among others, "1A6," "1A3," "1A7," and "1A2." Shorthand, but for what?
There are other questions she had as well about his flights. The reasons she's curious about what he was doing over there are rather personal (nothing to do with marital affairs) and instead of tying up this forum with this situation I wanted to know if anyone with knowledge or experience would like to reply via PM and let me explain further. I would appreciate their help, as would she.
PS I forgot to explain this all happened before their marriage, and he was pretty closed-mouthed about what he did while in the Marine Corps.
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