I got to see an EA-6 in person while deployed to Afghanistan when we were in Bagram back in 2006-2007. Parked in it's hanger and a few takeoffs and landings as the huts we would stay in before heading back out to resupply COP's, was nearby their hangar that they were housed in for maintenance.
Flight deck crew members service two A-6E Intruder aircraft on the snow-covered flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS CORAL SEA (CV-43) during the U.S. 3rd Fleet North Pacific exercise NORPAC on April 13, 1983.
Two EA-6B Prowlers, assigned to the "Scorpions" of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 132, on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Atlantic Ocean, Jan. 29, 2008.
Grumman A-6E Intruder (BuNo 162190) from Attack Squadron VA-75 Sunday Punchers, armed with 12 227 kg Mk 82 bombs, en route to a target in the 1991 Gulf War.
A-6 suffered a compressor stall on start up. Pilot shut down and then tried to restart. Compressor stall a second time in which motor grenade causing blades to fly through the fuel tanks.
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