That story line just sounds fantastically implausible.
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Best Naval Aviation movies
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That story line just sounds fantastically implausible.
navyao
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Hell yea "phrogdriver," The Great Santini's awesome! If you haven't seen it you gotta check it out. "We are Marine Corps fighter pilots. We have no other purpose."
What about Apollo 13? It has H-3s in it!!
Looking at it now though, if a new squadron CO came aboard with that speech, I'd think he was a self-important douchebag.
Remember one of the opening scenes when JW's semi-out of control aircraft antics cause a couple of guys to bail off the train and into the water while coming across what is Bayou Grande ... ???
That train track used to run parallel to the bridge over to main gate @ Mainside. A great little Italian restaurant used to occupy the east side of S. Navy Blvd. immediately off the bridge and my duplex was on the west side of S. Navy Blvd -- across the street.
It was still there in 86/87. As you say, nice little place.
Friends...
I remember the drive-in movie on S. Navy Blvd. not too far from the Main Gate. In '57, w/ five NAVCAD classmates in my '53 Olds 88, watching the "new" movie The Bridges At Toko-Ri. Very inspiring for young aspiring wannabe Nasal Radiators! Who could know, I would later go on to almost live LT Brubaker's story, only with a different bird, better ending, in a later war. Still my favorite movie of all time. :thumbup_1
Of those five neophytes, i ended up in A-4s, the other four in F-8, F-3H, A-3 & S-2. We are all still connected by e-mail. Believe it; many of the friendships you make in OCS, USNA, Flight Trng etc. will last a lifetime! :icon_hear
Admiral Tarrant: "Where do we get such men?"
BzB
I remember the drive-in movie on S. Navy Blvd. not too far from the Main Gate. In '57, w/ five NAVCAD classmates in my '53 Olds 88, watching the "new" movie The Bridges At Toko-Ri. Very inspiring for young aspiring wannabe Nasal Radiators! Who could know, I would later go on to almost live LT Brubaker's story, only with a different bird, better ending, in a later war. Still my favorite movie of all time. :thumbup_1
Of those five neophytes, i ended up in A-4s, the other four in F-8, F-3H, A-3 & S-2. We are all still connected by e-mail. Believe it; many of the friendships you make in OCS, USNA, Flight Trng etc. will last a lifetime! :icon_hear
Admiral Tarrant: "Where do we get such men?"
BzB
You're not a fighter pilot ...
So fighter pilots are douchebags? Wow, get a few drinks in A4 and the truth comes out!
I'd like to read Bull Meecham's policy letters on EO, Hazing, Sexual Harassment, etc. I'd also like to examine his NATOPS jacket, APR, and MSHARP to ensure compliance with GWOE and ORM training. Was his "Mentoring" program in compliance with MCO P1234.56?
(BTW, Bull Meecham wasn't killed in flight. He was actually relieved of command for "a loss of confidence in his ability to command" after one of his Lance Corporals got a DUI after spending President's Day weekend in Savannah. Apparently LCpl Benotz didn't complete his HARP form (to include vehicle inspection) prior to departure, and hadn't completed his IA and Combating Trafficking in Humans CBTs before the Safety Stand Down.)
You mean Col. Donald Conroy.
The one and only.
(I know a thing or two about Lowcountry history and literature - I graduated from Pat's alma mater.)