An A-7 jet fighter catapults off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Gulf of Oman during the Desert Storm conflict between the U.S. and Iraq in 1990. This is while former Petty Officer Richard Perrin of North Port,Fla. served aboard the ship as an air traffic controller. Photo provided

Before Richard Perrin became chief chef and owner of RK’s Café at Bobcat Village Center, North Port, Fla. he was an air traffic controller aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson serving in the Gulf of Oman when Saddam Hussein marched his troops into Kuwait in 1990 launching “Operation Dessert Storm” which started the Gulf War in Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »