When Pilot Lieutenant Jim Lloyd launched from USS Saratoga on a Vietnam War reconnaissance mission, a SAM missile hit his A-7 Corsair, forcing him to eject over enemy territory. Pursued by the ...

Over 100 veterans said their goodbyes to the USS Saratoga, a Forrestal-class carrier that protected the United States for nearly 50 years and saw action in Vietnam and in Operation Desert Storm.

Graduating from the National War College in 1987, he reported as executive officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 81 and assumed command of the "Sunliners" in May 1989, deploying aboard USS Saratoga (CV ...