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.