John and wife Pat after the Hornet fly-in with VFA-25 and VFA-113 on 23 August 1985. That's right, over 30 years ago the F/A-18 made its first extended carrier deployment in USS Constellation with CVW-14 with Captain J.J. "Swede" Zerr (ComCVW-14), CDR John "Rat" Leslie (CO VFA-25) and CDR Craig "Panda" Langbehn (CO VFA-113). We are now called "Legacy" Hornet drivers by the Super Hornet bubbas, but we were FIRST! Read about it in Chapter 22.