User Guide

2 ......The Root of all Evil: Squadrons Fighting
and Killing to Stay Above Water
Editorial
4......Mail Drop
6......The Wildcats: They’re Not Just a
Squadron, They’re a Smart Venture
Virgil Beetlebaum
7......Wildcat Dossiers
12....Sell and Scramble:
a Typical Wildcat Mission
D. Duhm
22....Contract: Terminated!
An Enforcer Speaks Out
”Gule Gule ”
34....Investigative Report
”James Stern: The Untold Story”
36....Leader of the Pack: The Jackal Speaks!
An Exclusive Interview with Jean-Paul
Prideaux
40....Decade of Turmoil Winds to a Close
44....Want Ads
45....Play Guide
SUDDEN DEATH • July 2011
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Editor-in-Chief
David Ladyman
Contributing Editor
Carolyn Cutler
Art Department
Craig Halverson, Bruce
Lemons, Danny Garrett,
Jake Rodgers and Chris
Douglas (photography)
Paul Steed (illustrations)
Eric Lund (diagrams)
Graphic Design
Jennifer Davis (interior)
Craig Miller (cover)
Senior Writer, Fiction
Gilbert P. Austin
Writer-Reporters
Tim Ray, Robert Irving,
Prem Krishnan
Chief of Correspondents
Chris Roberts
Special Correspondents
Jason Templeman,
Bill Baldwin, Paul Isaac,
Frank Savage
Foreign Correspondent
Erin Roberts
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July 2011 Volume 12, Number 9
“Mission Accomplished”
Cover Photograph by D. Duhm,
using a Nactar 486.33. For more,
see ”Sell and Scramble —A Typical
Wildcat Mission,” on page 12