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===1990β1999=== {{quote box |source= |align= right |width= 33% | quote = Today is a very special and memorable day in your military career that will remain with you throughout your lifetime. You have survived the ultimate test of your peers and have proven to be completely deserving to wear the crest of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. The prestige of wearing the Blue Angels uniform carries with it an extraordinary honor{{snd}}one that reflects not only on you as an individual, but on your teammates and the entire squadron. To the crowds at the air shows and to the public at hospitals and schools nationwide, you are a symbol of the Navy and Marine Corps' finest. You bring pride, hope and a promise for tomorrow's Navy and Marine Corps in the smiles and handshakes of today's youth. Remember today as the day you became a Blue Angel; look around at your teammates and commit this special bond to memory. "Once a Blue Angel, always a Blue Angel," rings true for all those who wear the crest of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. Welcome to the team. |author = The Blue Angels Creed, written by JO1 Cathy Konn 1991β1993<ref name="Beare 2007 p. ">{{cite book |last=Beare |first=Scott |title=The power of teamwork: inspired by the Blue Angels| publisher=Simple Truths |location=Naperville, Ill |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-60810-037-8}}</ref> }} In 1992, the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia (first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain. In November 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first "Blue Jet" landing on a "[[haze gray and underway]]" aircraft carrier, [[USS Harry S. Truman|USS ''Harry S. Truman'']] (CVN-75). On 8 October 1999, the Blue Angels lost two pilots. [[Lieutenant commander (United States)|LCDR]] Kieron O'Connor and [[Lieutenant (United States)|LT]] Kevin Colling were returning from a practice flight before an air show when their [[McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet#A/B|F/A-18B]] crashed in a wooded area of south Georgia.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McIntyre |first1=Jamie |title=Blue Angel crash victims identified |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/28/missing.angel.04/ |work=CNN |access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref>
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