Brian Johnston Brian Johnston Brian Alexander Johnston (24 June 1912 – 5 January 1994), nicknamed Johnners, was a British cricket commentator, author, and television presenter. He was most prominently associated with the BBC during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994. Born at the Old Rectory, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the youngest of four children (elder siblings were Anne, Michael and Christopher). His paternal grandfather, Reginald Eden Johnston, had been Governor of the Bank of England between 1909 and 1911. The World War II airborne division commander Frederick 'Boy' Browning was his first cousin. On 27 August 1922,
VFA-81 of USS "Saratoga", which was decommissioned in August 1994. In 1996 VFA-81 made a cruise with CVW-17 aboard , followed by a deployment aboard in 1998. Following this cruise, the squadron shifted its homeport to NAS Oceana, Virginia due to the BRAC-mandated closure of NAS Cecil Field in 1999. In 2000 and 2002 VFA-81 made two deployments aboard to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. In 2004 VFA-81 made a single deployment aboard USS "John F. Kennedy". In 2007 VFA-81 was reassigned to CVW-11 in the Pacific Fleet and deployed aboard USS "Nimitz" to the Western Pacific and the