"I never want to fight. My ideal - and this may sound crude in civilian terms - is an assassination. I'm going to come sneaking up on this guy and kill him before he even knows I'm around. I'm not out there to turn and burn and do Top Gun stuff. I'm out there to put 'em down, and I don't want them to even know I'm around. I want a guy to be flying along and then next thing he knows, he's hanging in his parachute, wondering what the Hell happened. That's my idea of a perfect day in combat. My ideal is, when he's six or eight miles away, he just goes up in a puff of smoke, and I just keep right on going." - Lieutenant-Commander Dave Jones, United States Navy, an instructor at Cecil Field (Source: "Hornet: The inside story of the F/A-18" by Orr Kelly. Novato, California, USA: Presidio Press, 1990. ISBN 0-89141-344-8. 231 pages.)