Snort laid out that the VF-84 Jolly Rogers and VF-14 Tophatters were both on the. He was coming into the landing pattern - what we call the. when CAPT Dale Snort Snodgrass, the Fighter Wing Commander.
His personal awards include two Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, two Air Medals, three Strike/Flight Air Medals, two Meritorious Service Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat V, three Navy Commendation Medals, and two Navy Achievement Medals. Join Facebook to connect with Dale Snort Snodgrass and others you may know. Dale Snodgrass, commander of Fighter Wings Atlantic and the senior F-14 pilot on the East Coast.
In April 1994 Captain Snodgrass became commodore of Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic based at NAS Oceana. In April 1993 he began service in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as section head of OPNAV N88, Aviation Training Resources.Ī year later he was promoted to Captain (CAPT) and selected for a major command. After serving as the executive officer of Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101) in 1988, he was selected for command of Fighter Squadron 33 (VF-33. He was selected as the 1985 Fighter Pilot of the Year and 1986 Grumman Aerospace TOPCAT of the Year. Then Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Snodgrass was selected in 1983 to be the operations officer of the Atlantic Fleet adversary squadron (VF-43) at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia (NAS Oceana). He attended the University of Minnesota on a. He grew up in Eastern Long Island NY as the son of a Test Pilot. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) at NAS Miramar, California and then served as a weapons training officer.Īs a Lieutenant (LT) he earned his Landing Signal Officer (LSO) qualification for all wing aircraft and was later selected as the Air Wing LSO for Carrier Air Wing (CVW) Eight. Captain Dale Snort Snodgrass was born in 1949. He was selected to attend and graduated from U.S. He completed his Navy flight training in December 1973 and was one of the first fighter pilots to fly the F-14 Tomcat. Had the pleasure to meet him once in 1998. His obituary: Dale attended the University of Minnesota as an NROTC Midshipman setting records as an All-American swimmer. Gods Speed to Snort who was killed in a Marchetti SM.1019 in Lewiston, Idaho yesterday. He was rumored to have been grounded for the maneuver, but it was actually an approved demonstration conducted during the carrier's tiger cruise. Snodgrass performing the famous low level "banana pass" of USS America (CV-66) in 1988.