Marty Lineen Hollywood Florida. I was in VT-27 in New Iberia La. and VT-31 in Corpus Christi Texas. Lots of fun.

I spent 3 1/2 years at NAS North Island Ca. from June 66 to December 69. I flew as aircrew member towing targets for the fleet to shoot at. VC-3 What Fun.

I was a plane captain on the S 2F in VT-31 NAS Corpus Christy, we had 50 aircraft. Trained a lot of pilots from 1964-1966, flew as crewman, worked in line crew and mech shop.really liked this Airplane.

Worked on S2F-1 & -2 at Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle in 1956 - 57. Only plane I ever worked on that I perferred not to fly in. Sent one out from line after engine change; crashed on take off. Engines were okay, suspect that 3 section vertical stabilizer / rudders arangement.

http://home.planet.nl/~roden171/indexn.html

this is a beutifull site dedicated to the grumman tracker.
enjoy.

I was an S2 plane captain for CDR Joe Kuhn in VS-33 NASNORIS. I have many fond memories under his highly capable command. I also served with LTCDR Manny Farren in VS-33. Mr. Farren admonished me as I checked out of the squadron that veterans were either the very best or very worst college students. I graduated college in the top 10 percent of my class. Thanks for the wise words that encouraged me to succeed academically and professionally.

If you haven't read the book "The Lieutenant Who never Was" do yourself a favor. I just finished it last night. Terrific from an old late sixties driver (me). (4/27/10). The author is Lcdr Tom Smith-one helluva story!!!!He sez it's fiction. I don't think so!!!!

Great memories of this aircraft while in VS23 attached to the USS Yorktown and flying as #3 Aircrew. Also some sad times as we lost 5 crew members in two accidents in 1968. I would like to pay tribute to those lost but not forgotten.
LCDR. Stebbins: CDR. Hubbs, LTGJ Benson, AX2 Randall Nightingale,and ADRAN Thomas Barber who replaced me as a crewmember due to a medical circumstances just 6 weeks prior to their accident off Vietnam.

Great memories of this aircraft while in VS23 attached to the USS Yorktown and flying as #3 Aircrew. Also some sad times as we lost 5 crew members in two accidents in 1968. I would like to pay tribute to those lost but not forgotten.
LCDR. Stebbins: CDR. Hubbs, LTGJ Benson, AX2 Randall Nightingale,and ADRAN Thomas Barber who replaced me as a crewmember due to a medical circumstances just 6 weeks prior to their accident off Vietnam.

VS-31 '62-'65....enjoyed EVER day I was there. In all the S-2 pix I see, there seems to be a piece of equipment missing. As I recall, there was a large ECM antenna just aft of the cockpit. Am I mistaken?
Thanks for the memories.

2 WestPac cruises aboard USS Bennington (CVS-20)with VS-33 S2-Es. Aircrew, #3 operator. I was one of the lucky guys that got to leave the ship almost every day. Ray Callhan and I flew several missions together off Vietnam coast and Tonkin Gulf. We got to see Hiphong Harbor less than 40 miles out and listen to "firecan" RADAR one night.

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I was with VS-24 NAS, Quonset Pt.,from '53 until it was decomissioned as an Avation Electrican's Mate Third Class and worked on the first S2F-1, 2, &3's. Interested in finding anyone who I served with at that time. After VS-24 was de-comissioned I was with VS-39 through '55.

Flew S-2s w/ VT-28 1974-5 and C-1As w/ VRC-50 stationed NAS Cubi PT Philippines w/shipboard and land based deployments. Great birds if you stay well within their performance envelope. Rudder assist is a killer.

flew with VS-37 aboard USS Hornet 68-69 as seat 3. later flew in P-2 and P-3 aircraft. nothing beats an S2.

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I flew my first flight in the S-2G in Dec 1974 with Mannie Farren (noted above) with VS-33 and may have been the first "real" Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to qualify to flight in the co-pilot right seat as we were heading to the S-3A transition. I logged 150 hours total and had a lot of fun in that vintage aircraft. Last flight was in August 1975 on a flight to the bone yard at Davis-Monthan AFB.

I had almost 5,000 hrs in the various versions of the S-2. Student at VT-27, VS-26, Instructor at VT-28, CAG-59 LSO, VS-41, VS-33, Safety on Kitty Hawk, and X.O. at Barking Sands, HI. LSO for 16 years. Great to hear from Joe Kuhn. Would love to fly one more time in the S-2.

To Cliff Eastman above: Your Dad qualified me for night landings aboard the USS Randolph back in 61. He was a great guy and a great pilot!

I was a plane captain, electronics technician and #3 operator on the S2D's and S2E's in VS 35 from 1966 to 1968. We flew off of the USS Hornet (CVS12) and I did three WestPAC's on her.
I loved that plane and everything about her. She was slow, perhaps, but a reliable workhorse.