Yes, this was run behind the Cubi O'Club and NAS Miramar that I saw.
After a few drinks, it was harder than it looked.
My Favorite PO line: "Are you in, are you in, are you in???....oh you are...oh, you so beeeg!!!"
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Subic Bay
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Yes, this was run behind the Cubi O'Club and NAS Miramar that I saw.
After a few drinks, it was harder than it looked.
My Favorite PO line: "Are you in, are you in, are you in???....oh you are...oh, you so beeeg!!!"
I (vaguely) remember the scene in the movie ... it was BASED on the real-deal @ the CUBI 'O Club bar .... top of the hill --- no river .... just a pool of sludge ... but it--the movie scene --- left much to be desired in terms of reality.
Is the "simulator" still alive and well @ the CUBI bar mock-up @ Pensacola Museum ... ???
Checking Scnugg's post .... I don't remember a Miramar "simulator" ... when did that come about ????
Below is great article on the history of the "Cubi Cat."
http://www.usna63.org/tradition/history/CubiCat.html
http://www.usna63.org/tradition/history/CubiCat.html
Unfortunately no.
Good link on the cat, CAT .....
CUBI Point (children and juniors please note ... I used all caps in CUBI ... as it was originally designated such after its creator ... Construction Unit Battalion 1, ... i.e., CUBI Point) ... but we still have work to do with our F-4 brethren even after all these years have passed us by
....The last CO of CUBI ... callsign BOXMAN ..... the REAL "BOXMAN" named in Flight of the Intruder (or at least the namesake for the book character) .... was personally responsible for the salvage and removal from CUBI, the crating, the shipping, and the delivery to NPA of an irreplaceable part of Naval Aviation history:
The CUBI 'O Club bar ..... with most of its accoutrements.
MANILA TIMES ARTICLE on the CUBI bar making it's way to a new "home".
BZ .... shipmate and BOXMAN.
Boy, isn't that the truth. I swear I gained a lifetime's worth of experience and memories of unbelievable stuff every stroll down Magsaysay.
As the T-shirt said, "I've seen it all, but I've never seen shit like this."
Oh, the humanity! How will I ever be able to restore my dignity after such a faux pas?CUBI Point (children and juniors please note ... I used all caps in CUBI ... as it was originally designated such after its creator ... Construction Unit Battalion 1, ... i.e., CUBI Point) ... but we still have work to do with our F-4 brethren even after all these years have passed us by
(I suppose I'll have to wear the squadron Delta Sierra award around for the day, huh? :clown_125 )
I haven't been to the CUBI Bar exhibit at the Museum. But last summer my neighbor with family visited there. He said his teenage son came running over to him to say he had "found Cat's name" on one of the plaques.
It's nice to know I'm now a museum piece. :bigeyes2_
Regarding the cat/trap "simulator"....Some enterprising JO apparently built a ramp, jet and arrsting gear/wire set up and had it up and running at NAS Miramar. Miss the wire end up in the pool. It was blast to watch.
This was pre-Tailhook days during the pre-cursor to Tomcat Ball...the Foc'Sle Follies week of events. I saw it at the club on a night Jimmy Buffet showed up and played a set with RADM "Red" Best.
This was pre-Tailhook days during the pre-cursor to Tomcat Ball...the Foc'Sle Follies week of events. I saw it at the club on a night Jimmy Buffet showed up and played a set with RADM "Red" Best.
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
Now that there is funny...
Subic Bay...
Yep,
Those posts bring back some memories. My first foreign port on my first deployment (ABE WESTPAC '91) was Subic Bay. It was an adult Disney Land. I went back a couple of years ago, one a/c P-3 det for an exercise. It was pretty sad to see how bad the remains of the base looked. I think they called it Subic Bay Port Authority or something. Anyway, I had been bragging to my crew about my that first deployment and when we got there...it sucked. Luckily, I talked our PI Navy liason into getting my crew into something that resembled the past. After a short drive, we arrived to what appeared to be what I was looking for. It was a great time but jesus did it cost a hell of a lot more than the '91 visit!
The closest you can get to that is probably Pattaya Beach, Thailand...I never made it to Bangkok...but Pattaya is pretty damn wild...
Yep,
Those posts bring back some memories. My first foreign port on my first deployment (ABE WESTPAC '91) was Subic Bay. It was an adult Disney Land. I went back a couple of years ago, one a/c P-3 det for an exercise. It was pretty sad to see how bad the remains of the base looked. I think they called it Subic Bay Port Authority or something. Anyway, I had been bragging to my crew about my that first deployment and when we got there...it sucked. Luckily, I talked our PI Navy liason into getting my crew into something that resembled the past. After a short drive, we arrived to what appeared to be what I was looking for. It was a great time but jesus did it cost a hell of a lot more than the '91 visit!
The closest you can get to that is probably Pattaya Beach, Thailand...I never made it to Bangkok...but Pattaya is pretty damn wild...
airfrogusmc
Member
Any of you guys eat any balut while you were there? Sober or drunk?
Boxman was an A6 B/N. He was the CO of the Naval Aviation Safety School after his tour as CO of Cubi. He has awesome stories to tell about the shut down. I had the good fortune of going on a weps det with Boxman in early 1980.
It's been discussed on some old threads. A4s even has a great pic of da "Balut-man" hawking his, "BAAAALOOOOOOOOOOTSSSSSS" (and some other pics you may not want to see, here:
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133577&page=2&highlight=balut