USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Hughes, Raymond R.

Email: [email protected]

Service Dates: 1979-1982

Rank/Duty Assigned: Aviation Electronics Tech 3rd Class/TACAN, component level repair

3.5 years maintaining TACAN and Flight Deck Helmet Communications system.  Shop was right under the flight deck and usually no more than 3 people assigned to the shop.  We were the “Tweets”.  Sometime during my time aboard, we made a picture of Tweety Bird using floor tiles and set it into the floor of the shop.

Was stationed aboard the Lex when the first women reported.