Lieutenant Elizabeth "Skates" Hawkes is a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) or Naval Flight Officer by designation. The CAG aboard the USS Seahawk, then Captain Thomas Boone, described Skates as the “his best RIO.” "Skates", as known to her aviator colleagues, was able to eject out of an F-14 ramp strike caused by an incompetent female pilot (Crossing The Line). In that incident, Harm grabbed her parachute and prevented her from falling into the sea and being cut up by the screws. She later visited JAG to pass Harm three manuals regarding the F-14, thus encouraging to change his designation to that of a Naval Aviator. (Goodbyes).