Gulf of Sidra Incident 1989 Defense Department Tape

On the morning of January 4, 1989, the USS Kennedy battle group was operating some 130 km north of Libya, with a group of A6 Intruders on exercise south of Crete, escorted by two pairs of F14As from VF14 and VF32, and as well as an E2C from VAW126. Later that morning the southernmost Combat Air Patrol station was taken by two F14s from VF32, AC207 (CDR Joseph Bernard Connelly, CDR Leo F. Enwright 159610 AC207) and AC202 (LT Hermon C. Cook III, LCDR Steven Patrick Collins 159437 AC202). The officers ha