{"id":80891,"date":"2024-07-06T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-grumman-a-6-intruder-serve-us-combat-missions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T22:33:11","slug":"how-did-the-grumman-a-6-intruder-serve-in-us-combat-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=80891","title":{"rendered":"How Did The Grumman A-6 Intruder Serve In US Combat Missions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    I first became familiar with the Grumman A-6 Intruder as a teenager, via two sources concurrently: (1) the real-life Persian Gulf War AKA Operation Desert Storm, which kicked off on January 17, 1991; and (2) the fictitious motion picture &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099587\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" ><em>Flight of the Intruder<\/em><\/a>&#8221; &#8212; starring Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, and the late Brad Johnson (not to be confused with the NFL quarterback who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory in Super Bowl XXXVII &#8212; which by sheer coincidence was released the day after Desert Storm commenced.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A-6 Intruder served the USN and USMC for 30+ years and in multiple conflicts. It also inspired a bestselling novel and major motion picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2759,8977,10154,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-cold-war","category-grumman","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80892,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80891\/revisions\/80892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}