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Cmdr. Muhammad Muzzafar F. Khan, the commander of Sea Control Squadron 31 (VS-31), joined the elite club of Naval aviators who have successfully completed 1,000 carrier-arrested landings. He trapped aboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) on 4 August while transiting the western Pacific Ocean to participate in Exercise Valiant Shield 2007. Khan, who was born and raised in Pakistan, has landed on nine different carriers in two different types of aircraft. He has accumulated more than 3,600 flight hours since his first arrested landing in 1993. Although based at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, the Top Cats of VS-31 are making the S-3 community's final deployment to the western Pacific Ocean. The S-3 will be retired from US Navy service in 2009.
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