USS Lexington Cruise 1991

Footage of my day cruise on the USS Lexington in 1991 at its home port of Pensacola. We went 8 miles out from the Port of Pensacola, through the pass and out to the oil rigs, then back to port. A-7's landed and took off from the deck, fired their guns at smoke targets in the water and dropped flash bombs on them as well.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• USS
• lexington
• aircraft
• carrier
• a-7
• coursair
• Pensacola
• Port
• pass
• Naval
• air
• station
• escambia
• county
• craft

[Lukenavyseal]

Awesome footage!

Thank you

1984-1987

[michaelwatson9696]

I served aboard her from 1974-1978. Nothing but wonderful memories. A big part of me is and will always remain aboard The LADY LEX! I think of her almost every day of my life.

[ccblack1]

FYI ... those jets are Vought Corsairs. Not Grumman.

[gtafan714]

i wass on a tour 2 years ago and i snuck off into a room taped off with no lights on i was scared as sh** i took a picture for the flash and i saw a reepy ass manican i fell and got a concussion ive learned my lesson

[Edward3091]

When I was a cadet Lt. in NJROTC we spent a week on the Lady Lex for flight ops...what a blast! Good times!

[777pusher]

OMG!!! Thank you for uploading this!! I was there, I think, if this was the cruise where the Blue Angels also performed for us, then one hit the sound barrier as it zipped by the ship only a couple hundred feet off the water.  So cool seeing a lot of familiar faces in this vid. I was on Side-Crew (Deck - 2nd Div.)

[bradmann85]

now it rest at corpus christi as a museum.

[ejb654]

i have stayed a few nights aboard lex with my JROTC unit, gotta say, had some real good times, especially doing fire watch at night