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 ...

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 ...