Story by Pfc. Raquel Barraza | Marine Corps Air Station Miramar | 07.19.2012
In 1960 a young second lieutenant, Bob Butcher, was at his first operational flying assignment with Marine Attack Squadron 242. He was flying a McDonnell Douglas A-4D Skyhawk with less than nine hours of flight time on it and felt a little intimated, but enjoyed every moment of it. Now, after more than fifty years, retired Maj. Gen. Butcher is a board of director’s chairman of the Flying......