Although I was never stationed at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL; I spent my final 10 years in the work force there, at the Naval Aviation Depot as a journeyman aircraft mechanic, testing and rebuilding the numerous fly by wire hydraulic flight control units for the F/A-18 aircraft.
NAS JAX has a large aircraft display area just inside the main gate. Among those displays is this F-8 Crusader aircraft. It was often referred to as the last of the gun fighters.
Yup, that was my big black dually.
