On August 18-19, 1981, during her fourth deployment, Nimitz and USS Forrestal (CV 59) conducted an open ocean missile exercise in the Gulf of Sidra near what Libyan leader Khadafi called the “Line of Death.” On the morning of August 19, two Nimitz aircraft from VF-41, were fired upon by Libyan pilots. Nimitz pilots returned fire and shot both Libyan aircraft from the sky. Newspapers across the country rallied around the incident against terrorist-backing Libya with front page headlines reading: “U.S. 2 - Libya 0.”...i was on the forrestal and got this medal,we got called to g q (general quarters) where you man your battle stations,i was assigned to the forward (bow) on the first deck.it was like 4:30 in the morning when the bells went off and the OOD said GQ GQ man your battle stations.libyan migs were heading our way.BUT they fell into the sea.yeah planes from the nimitiz shot them ragheads right the heck out of the sky....they left us alone after that,also got a sea service ribbon,then thru the suez canal and we floated around the red sea and the I O (indian ocean) so long they flew us beer on the ship from oz (austrailia).i cut the cans labels off and still have them,one is tiger beer and the other is anchor
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