Once again, Ms. Sullivan erred in print April 18 (Letters to the Editor, “Navy activities are worth questioning”).

The extra three Growlers given by Boeing to the Navy were to settle a lawsuit over the 1991 cancellation of the A-12, not the FA-22 (sic). The F-22 is an air superiority fighter of the Air Force. Please see page 13 of the acquisition report. Or simply try Google.

The two salient points relating to the numbers of Growlers are that a large number of these Growlers will be elsewhere at any given time; and that even at 163, the total number of Growlers is much fewer than the number of A-6s and EA-6s during the 1970s and ’80s.

As one who has spent nearly seven years in the Navy, including a tour in the F-18C, as well as another 2.5 decades in the airlines, I am increasingly disappointed in Ms. Sullivan’s printed errors. Given her lack of actual military or aviation experience, she is not a military aviation expert. 

In response to polite requests for sources for her March 14 article, she called me both a “troll” and an “enraged gorilla.”

Would she refer to Capt. Shults, who also served as an F-18 pilot prior to becoming a pilot at Southwest, as an “enraged gorilla”?

Or, as the rest of us, would she instead be grateful that Capt. Shults had the excellent Navy training, which helped her calmly save 148 lives?