He holds a Bachelor of Aviation Management degree from Auburn University and a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence degree from Defense Intelligence College (now National Intelligence University). The son of a Navy senior chief corpsman who later served in the Foreign Service, Burgess is a native of Bethesda, Maryland, but spent most of his youth overseas in Panama, Afghanistan, and Taiwan. He also has been a commentator on naval technology on Fox News, CBS Radio, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and the BBC Radio. He has published articles in many publications, including Combat Aircraft, Air International, Air Forces Monthly, Naval Institute Proceedings, Wings of Gold, The Hook, and Rotor Review. ![]() He served as editor of Naval Aviation News magazine from 1989 to1993 and as Training Department Head on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).īurgess is the author, editor, or co-author of six books on naval aviation and has been a contributor to other books, including several editions of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Burgess also served as an analyst of Soviet submarine operations for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He also served as Assistant Air Operations Officer on the staff of Carrier Group Four on three aircraft carriers in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. Navy as a naval flight officer, becoming a navigator, tactical coordinator, and mission commander in P-3C Orion aircraft, making major deployments to Okinawa, the Aleutians, and Japan with Patrol Squadron Nine and to Sicily and Bermuda with Patrol Squadron 45. Prior to joining Seapower, he served in the U.S. Burgess is senior editor of Seapower, having joined the staff in 1997. Navy’s existing inventory of EA-18Gs.īoeing originally delivered 160 EA-18Gs to the U.S. “This aircraft would replace Australia’s EA-18G A46-311 aircraft lost in an accident at Nellis Air Force Base ,” the DSCA said, noting the aircraft would come from the U.S. The EA-18G would be from Lot 38 or later and would be modified to the configuration of the other 11 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) EA-18Gs. government and contractor engineering/technical assistance related studies and analysis support and other related elements of programmatic, technical and logistics support” - would cost approximately $125 million. 30 notification the transaction - which would include the aircraft plus “engineering and modification verification and validation flight test efforts maintenance and storage U.S. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a Sept. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of one EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft to replace one lost in a mishap. NAVY / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Isaiah Williams An EA-18G Growler, assigned to the “Gauntlets” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136, recovers on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Sept.
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