Originally Posted by
chopper2004
Did FAA aviator went onto skipper a destroyer or frigate and after went back to flying duties??
The aforementioned Michael Clapp's command of HMS
Puncheston was between his stints as SOBS 801 and CO 801. Given that until recently NAS COs were normally Lt Cdrs, the ships the could have commanded at an earlier point in their careers were pretty much limited to MCMVs and PVs/PBs of various sorts (as Menelaus said).