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I did just fine with my merit badge and degree. Damn...I've been waiting a long time to use that...

That's a terrible shame.

Lets just hope he's sleeping it off...

That's what we call a Chinese Promotion....strictly honorable, no pay or benefits

I was on the Constellation for FRS CQ when it caught fire in 88 off SoCal. Scary stuff.

The border road is pretty easy to see at altitude...but it quickly becomes an invisible line of dust at 500' and 500 kts on a low altitude bug out. Ask me how I know, Señor...:D

That is some serious AOA/nose up in the wires. :D Is that normal?

I knew a guy who got the call sign "Baja" in R-2301 on the TACTS range. On a bug south they popped up just tooling around well south of the border. Bill Dollard, working the TACTS range says something along the lines of "Aardvark 106, recommend turning right to 350 heading to re-enter the...

Doing a DITY alone is great, until you have 17k pounds of household goods to move as I did. Then we did a regular move and a partial DITY. Make some nice $$$. Watch the movers closely. Take lots of pictures/videos before you have them arrive. Buy extra insurance from your insurance...

Some helo shots: 080514-N-9689V-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (May 14, 2008) Hospital Corpsman Apprentice Stephanie Gomez and Hospital Corpsman Amanda Vasquez, working as flight deck handlers aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), run clear after removing the chains from...

When I was in NFO training we'd take the T-47A to Salina, KS. There was an FBO there that had ladies in mini-skirts taxi you in. Iif you can call it directing you at all, they just stood there and waved orange wands anywhere they wanted, we parked the jet on our own. They brought you a...

I'd run that one by your recruiting command POC. It does seem like you could be setting yourself up to end up in the wrong pipeline...as a pilot god forbid. :eek:

Were people actually checking in while you were on the ball or was that Radio 2?

So what are you trying to say? You don't like the call...or your wife didn't like the call? Unless you told her something in "confidence" about what you saw or heard.

So let your Mrs. blab away and make sure she identifies herself as your wife to every news media she talks with...

That looks like quite a clutch-burner.

All this will do is use more water. Warm soapy showers and many drain babies.... :D

Nice demo.

I had many hi-cap Glock mags that were bought pre-ban. I could use, but could only load them to 10 rounds. Any more than that and I was in violation of their stupid laws. But hey whou would know...the magazine police??? You can also go over the hill towards El Sweato in shoot out in the...

They could become draconian about the A-Pool and have you all come in every day, uniform inspections every day, sit in a room for 8 hours, read navy regulation manuals and then go home...no more good deals. The A-Pool is Navy O-1 pay with no work...and you guys are bitching over the cost of a...

Is it me or is the LSO platform sort of missing? No real good images of that area. Or perhaps he built it with the barrier down and the control station lowered.

I think I see Aardvark F-14s on the flight deck. I did the 89 cruise on the Big E and took her around the horn to the shipyard...looks very familiar.

HDIP...YGTBSM!!!! No. This: Does not equate to this:

That's the story he relates in the linked video. Good stuff.

That's a great pic. First one to the bow gets the downwind turn first...

On the Big E going around South America in 1990, we had 60 knots of wind on the flight deck. And that was just making enough way to have steerage. We backed down to recover a/c. No wake to cross on a day Case I approach. You could see the props turning under the blue water behind the ship...

Sometimes it sucks being salaried...no overtime. :(

By what???.....Hey look a shiny object.... :D

I joined because it was cool after watching Top Gun.

At least he didn't stay in there for 2-3 years and fuse to the seat...

Odd...I don't recall suffering at all watching the PLAT as a RR Qual'd LSO??? :D:D:D ;)

"two...hit was long by 3000 meters."

It was a Prowler.

Although they make the same moves as if they're being blown about by a huge cold wind...remember they're actually being blown about my extremely hot jet exhaust. I've been up there and been blasted manning up, it's not fun...but of course I really tip my hat to these junior sailors, they work...

Simple answer, engineer plastic so it tastes bad. No problem anymore. :D

Yikes...Bogey_Spotter's gone high and right!!!

Does it have to be from deep within the earth...what about shallow mines? And you deduced metal is a petroleum based product. WTF? You lost me there... You ever seen this picture?...lots of metal there slowly dissolving...yup going back to nature. Hmmmm....what do you heat your...

Whoa, Don't harsh my mellow, Dude!!! :icon_smil

Mmmmmmm...tasty... 020714-N-5652V-001 At sea aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1) Jul. 14, 2002 -- Fire Controlman 3rd Class Eric Moore from Macon, GA, currently assigned to the ship’s environmental department, places a disc inside of a plastic bag for disposal. The melting unit compresses plastic...

Back in the day...everything went over the side when 50 miles out to sea...AIGs would follow us and pick at anything that floated. Now on carriers, we hold all trash on station. We burn incinerate all paper products...(incinerator TAD duty is clearly not a primo TAD job), we melt all...

So next the Democrats will call for the military to take action...then say they were forced to vote for action, later on when it gets ugly...

Open your eyes wide...this won't hurt a bit....BZzzzzzzzzzzzap. For the old guys, a new form interrogation..."Is it safe?, Is it safe?"

Here's a girl in a Burkha for you...nice eyes...

If you can get through Annapolis, I got a box of various uniforms...in your size.

I know aviation , but what is your world...EOD, CEC, supply...?

Nothing public yet.

I had to go with the CAG to meet the widow of a mishap aircrew and brief her on what happened. Not easy to do.

On the Carl Vinson, they got a huge espresso machine in WR1. No kidding 5 feet long with brass domes and an eagle on top. They did the same on the Stennis, too. Stennis one is similar to one below. I swear no one ever slept on that ship...guys would be running down for a hit between...

By now most of you heard a midshipman died suddenly at the Naval Academy on Monday morning. See: https://www.usna.com/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?RSS=acad&pid=5136 The EarlyBird reported the following: http://ebird.afis.mil/ebfiles/e20080507598983.html This is never how a family should learn...