"The F-14’s been around for a long time. It’s been a
great fighter and a strike fighter. It’s just getting
old."
Source: Cmdr. Doug Waters, executive officer of
Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5’s Fighter Squadron (VF) 154,
embarked on USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), one of 10 F-14 squadrons in the
Navy, on the impending retirement of the F-14 Tomcat.