Location: Jacksonville Date: 1977 Photo credit: Mike Trout Contact: Description: The 1977 Annual VA-45 Blackbird Ball Jacksonville, Florida. Seated left to right: 1. Lieutenant Leddy (sitting in the Blackbird's lap); 2. Lieutenant Jay Wooley (in Blackbird costume); 3. Lieutenant Osborn. Standing left to right: 1. Unknown Captain; 2. Unknown Captain (former VA-45 Commanding Officer); 3. Unknown Captain (former VA-45 Commanding Officer); 4. Lieutenant Brian Lehman; 5. Unknown Lieutenant Commander; 6. Lieutenant John Rebeske; 7. Commander Michael D. Trout, Commanding Officer; 8. Lieutenant Weatherly 9. Unknown Lieutenant; 10. Commander Richard Porter, Executive Officer; 11. Unknown Lieutenant; 12. Unknown Lieutenant; 13. Unknown Lieutenant; 14. Lieutenant Commander Tim Bauer; 15. Doug Brewer; 16. Unknown; 17. Unknown; 18. Unknown; 19. Lieutenant Mike O'Hanlon. Photograph from Mike Trout. There were several former VA-45 commanding officers at this Ball. Perhaps the farthest left person is one of those. Atlantic Fleet assigned a fighter pilot, Lieutenant Leddy, to VA-45 to assist developing our Air Combat Maneuvering program and we received the ACM mission July 1, 1976.