The carrier Saratoga, which left Mayport, Fla., today, will take the Eisenhower's place in the Mediterranean.

"That guaranteed me I would not have to work with open homosexuals," said Vince Filby, a 23-year-old aviation ordnance specialist aboard the carrier Saratoga.

"Lieutenant Commander Riggs has been temporarily assigned to the carrier Saratoga, " Cob replied.

And Lieutenant Commander Riggs is assigned TDY to the carrier Saratoga.

Admiral Hyland did two stints as a test pilot in the late 1940's and 1950's before taking command of the carrier Saratoga.

In 1961 he headed an inquiry into a fire aboard the carrier Saratoga off Athens in the Ionian Sea, which killed 7 crewmen and injured 23.

Lieutenant Dorsey was transferred from the carrier Saratoga to a job ashore after the incident and banned from ever flying a Navy plane again.

Two of the Sea Sparrows were fired accidentally from the carrier Saratoga, hitting the bridge of the Turkish destroyer, Muavenet, three miles away.

The American plane, an F/A-18 off the carrier Saratoga, was shot down by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile and its pilot was killed, American officials said.

At least 18 other United States aircraft fly from the carrier Saratoga in the Adriatic.