Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Na 30 Disemba 1960, VF-121 "Pacemakers" na NAS Miramar ghọrọ onye ọrụ Phantom mbụ ya na F4H-1Fs (F-4As). VF-74 "Be-devilers" na NAS Oceana ghọrọ ndị mbụ na-ebugharị ụgbọ elu Phantom mgbe ọ natara F4H-1s (F-4Bs) na 8 Julaị 1961. Ndị otu ụgbọelu ahụ mechara akwụkwọ ikike ụgbọelu n'ọnwa Ọktoba 1961 na nke mbụ nke ụgbọelu ụgbọelu Phantom n'etiti August 1962 na Machị 1963 n'ụgbọ mmiri Forrestal. Ndị nke abụọ na-arụ ọrụ na US Atlantic Fleet iji nweta F-4Bs bụ VF-102 "Diamondbacks", bụ ndị were ụgbọ elu ọhụrụ ha ozugbo na njem ụgbọ mmiri nke Enterprise. The mbụ deployable U.S. Pacific Fleet skwodron na-enweta F-4B bụ VF-114 "Aardvarks", nke abuana ke September 1962 ụgbọ mmiri n'ụgbọ USS Kitty Hawk. Site na oge nke Tonkin Gulf merenụ, 13 nke 31 deployable agha mmiri skwodron e ji ngwá agha na ụdị. F-4Bs si Constellation mere Phantom mbụ ọgụ sortie nke Vietnam Agha na 5 August 1964, na-efe efe bombu escort na Operation Pierce Arrow. Mmeri mbụ nke ụgbọelu Phantom n'agha ahụ mere na 9 Eprel 1965 mgbe F-4B sitere na VF-96 "Fighting Falcons" nke Lieutenant (junior grade) Terence M. Murphy na RIO ya, Ensign Ronald Fegan, gburu ndị China MiG-17 "Fresco". E gburu Phantom mgbe ahụ, ikekwe site na AIM-7 Sparrow site n'aka otu n'ime ndị ọrụ ya. A ka na-ese okwu banyere ma ọ bụ egbe MiG gburu Phantom ma ọ bụ, dị ka akụkọ ndị iro gosipụtara mgbe e mesịrị, AIM-7 Sparrow III site na otu n'ime Murphy na Fegan's wingmen. Na 17 June 1965, otu F-4B si VF-21 "Freelancers" nke Commander Louis Page na Lieutenant John C. Smith na-eduzi gburu ndị mbụ North Vietnamese MiG nke agha ahụ.Na 10 May 1972, Lieutenant Randy "Duke" Cunningham na Lieutenant (junior grade) William P. Driscoll na-efe F-4J, akara oku "Showtime 100", gburu ndị MiG-17 atọ iji bụrụ ndị mbụ America na-efe efe agha. A kwenyere na mmeri nke ise ha n'oge ahụ bụ n'isi onye agha North Vietnamese dị omimi, Ọchịagha Nguyen Toon, nke a na-ewere ugbu a dị ka akụkọ ifo. N'elu...  Ajụjụ: Olee mgbe mbụ e ji Phantom mee ihe?
Julaị 8, 1961