F-14 deploys for the LAST time!!

I had heard a few months ago that when the USS Carl Vinson returns from the gulf it would be the last deployment of the F-14 Tomcat fighter…however, in watching the news the other night, they showed the USS Theodore Roosevelt leaving for the gulf and announced, very pointedly, that THIS would be the last deployment of the Grumman F-14 (I don’t care who supposedly built or maintains them now, they are GRUMMAN F-14 Tomcats, just like they are General Dynamics F-16s!!) So on the decks of CVN-75 will the Tomcat take it’s last trap in about 6 months….and then a page, long written, of aviation history will close…no more Grumman fighters aboard US Navy carriers…..:-(

Mark