I played some dice game at the I-bar. No idea what it was called but I got beer out of it and thus, I'm a fan.
Unfortunately, I think that it means that they don't see a huge overreaction to an "offensive" event as anything strange. They grew up with such blather and don't know anything different.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned how Sen. McCain sold out all of his brethren during the witch-hunt after the incident.
... Besides, I was six when it happend.
Applying the standard of "proof" extant during the post Tailhook '91 witch-hunt -- that fact alone would have been enough to find you guilty as charged w/ your career summarily ruined ........ I was six when it happend.
Thought from the younger generation . . . the fact that a 5th year college senior posting on a Naval Aviation message board didn't have any idea what Tailhook was may be a clue that we as an organization and a society are beginning to get over some of the PC BS of the era . . .
Then you are guilty as well. Now for the next question: were you there???I was six when tailhook went down....
Then you are guilty as well. Now for the next question: were you there???
i hope so. what's it take to get an o-club around here?
We played all the time in Puerto Rico (remember when we had a NAS there?
I was in the naval aviation museum a couple of months back, and I wandered into the Cubi Point O-club "exhibit". Looking through the myriad plaques and statues from different dets and cruises, I found one from a WestPac my dad did in '91 or '92, can't remember which right now. It really hit me then that I really, really wished that I had been born maybe 20 years earlier, so that I could have had experienced this brotherhood of naval aviation that's supposedly died. It's a damn shame guys like us, who, I imagine aren't all that different from the men who flew F4F's, F-4's, A-4's, Hueys, etc back in the glory days won't ever get what they did, just because someones feelings might get hurt.
/rant.