USMC Hornet In Combat | Tim "Nugget" Golden (New) 

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Nugget, one of my favourite interviewees. Cool guy. Loves the F3, even though he flew the Hornet. Love that.

The early mention of Stennis… I wonder if Nugget came to my hometown of Hobart, Tasmania on one of their visits here in the 90s. I loved seeing those CVNs(and even one of the old Forrestals!) when one would visit. I also loved having a few frothies with a few of their crew on occasion, as I was former RAN by then. In my time myself and 2 of my shipmates got a personalised tour on an aforementioned Forrestal class carrier after a random meeting with a VERY generous and all around great bloke serving onboard. I wish I could remember his name, but I’m sure he was a red shirt. The Ranger battle group arrived in Singapore when we also happened to be there on a South East Asian “Flying the Flag” deployment. I could not believe how many ships were in that battle group! Way more surface combatants than our entire Navy! We’re talking Adams class, Spruance class, maybe even a Kidd, I don’t know. There may have been Ticos or even early Burkes in the mix somewhere, but I didn’t see any. That was the Cold War however. We were a 2 warship deployment…🤣 Now, I’m going to watch the rest…

33:20 Reminds me of Lt Col Dan Hamptons book where he lands a flight of F16s in a sandstorm, not quite the same but thinking on your feet, in the air, with a certain deadline.

The Marine Corps is the ultimate military force. They literally do it all, land, Air and sea. And land and Sea air operations. No other military organization can do everything

Nugs! What up brother. No mention of the crane story…? 😂. Great interview man. SF. Once a Knight Is Never Enough.

323 Death Rattlers......they were some of the first marine Legacy Hornets

Another great interview 👍

This is awesome Mike thanks for setting this up! We and by that I mean I need a Q&A with this guy. I will bombard him with Hornet questions. Getting to ear about these stories in real life that I do in DCS is so cool.

Great interview 👏👏

Amazing interviews on this channel!

Love this channel but ive been waiting a while for my Aircrew Interview hoodie i paid for a few weeks now and not sure where its coming from or when it's being delivered?

Cope and coffee...lol, off a carrier or at a job site, same things.

oh, nugs has got a german uniform hanging in the background, ahm… interesting. 🤗 would like to hear about that.

Interesting. But in the back of my mind I can't shake the thought "big boys and their toys not knowing what they doing".

Oil-based policy just to steel there Oil is 😢😢😢😢😢