[Llarry]

Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 251 (VMFA-251) 'Thunderbolts' is currently in cadre status (no aircraft) scheduled to become the first Atlantic side Marine F-35C unit and join a carrier air wing. I found this photo on google and thought it was pretty cool -- four VMF-251 F-8B Crusaders assigned to the carrier Shangri-La during the Cuban missile crisis of late 1962. Four F-8Bs with hooks down and airbrakes deployed maintaining good formation and clearly approaching to land on the carrier.