Captain Richard K. Palmer, pilot and operations officer of Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron (H&MS)-11, checks the 20mm cannon on his cougar jet before an air control mission in Vietnam on August 4, 1967. The cougar jet is one of the oldest jet aircraft in the Marine Corps inventory.

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