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Fifty years ago today ...

Fog

Old RIOs never die: They just can't fast-erect
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Nice photo of your winging. I'd forgotten how cool-looking the dress-khaki uniforms were !!
 

BusyBee604

St. Francis/Hugh Hefner Combo!
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Was that a cell phone camera picture? :D
Ha ha ha... cell phone?
Ha ha ha... iPhone 5... 1962? ha ha ha (well played). They were still using hand-cranked (party line, all neighbors eavesdropping) telephones in 1962!:eek:
Crank Phone.jpg
BTW, Ron becomes the 2nd AW to have been (survived), a half-century as a Naval Aviator. Congrats to AW "Grey Eagle II"! Eagle I out.:D
BzB
 

picklesuit

Dirty Hinge
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MIDNJAC

is clara ship
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My old man has a nearly identical photo from '58 hung proudly in the family room/den of my folks house. I often ask him what flight school was like without running water or electricity.
 

BusyBee604

St. Francis/Hugh Hefner Combo!
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My old man has a nearly identical photo from '58 hung proudly in the family room/den of my folks house. I often ask him what flight school was like without running water or electricity.

MIDN...heck, maybe I know him? I wuz winged 03/07/1958, NAAS Bugville, TX.:cool:
Wings @ Beeville, TX.jpg
BzB
 

BusyBee604

St. Francis/Hugh Hefner Combo!
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Nice photo of your winging. I'd forgotten how cool-looking the dress-khaki uniforms were !!

Geez, they got rid of two of my favorites, AWGs & SDKs. I cannot understand why (change for changes sake?). The whole Navy uniform system has become so screwed up, can't ID a Sailor from a Marine, need multi-$$$ & 3 seabags full of uniforms/multi-color pattern cammys, etc., what was wrong with our former dress/working uniforms? The old 'Navy look' was unique, and frankly... the Chicks loved our old "unis".:D

UNIFORM means - the same! Sadly, not so much any more.:(
BzB
 
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