Homecoming kiss

VAQ-134 returns from a tour of duty in Saudi Arabia.

“Lt. j.g. Doug Crane and his wife Sherry kiss on the tarmac at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Thursday afternoon, after Crane and other members of VAQ-134 returned from a three month-plus tour of duty at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The squadron’s principal job was to fly its EA-6B Prowlers in support of Operation Southern Watch, the policing operation over the no-fly zone of southern Iraq. Whidbey crews flew five-hour missions every day and maintenance personnel put in 12 to 13 hour days. It was a good deployment, said VAQ-134 Cmdr. Tom Tack. “