Home is the Hunter, by William S. Phillips An F-4 Phantom recovers aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation silhouetted against the setting sun. The Connie took station off the coast of Vietnam with Air Wing Fourteen in the summer of 1964. She would be assigned to the area on seven separate occasions. Her final deployment would conclude with combat operations in August, 1973. On July 1st of that year, she and her crew were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism in action during the 1971-1972 crisis.
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