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I think that would make a pretty good patch... http://6dollarshirts.com/t-shirts/Girl-Scout-Parody-p-11116.html

Well that was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I'm not expecting blimps to be showing up in Navy commercials anytime soon ("Accelerate Your Life...Kinda"), but goshdarnit the markings would look good and it's tradition.

Why no big US Navy markings on the airbag? Because it's contractor operated? Anyway, seems like a missed recruiting opportunity. :icon_tong

I read a post of Hoser's on a different forum once, and I believe he had something like 2 frames of said HUD film. The one above, and one with the pipper slightly behind the F-15's canopy. When instructing A/A gunnery (I believe at TOPGUN?) he'd display the latter image to a classroom full of...

Air National Guard

Ah, I remember coming across this once. I might have to finally get it now. Thanks!

There's a pretty good account of his Mig shoot-down in the first few pages of "Bogeys and Bandits." Would love to read more about that mission, if there's anything out there.

I think our kids will be dreaming about growing up to be UAV Top Guns (sic)! ;) :(

Carrier Air Group? :)

Way to lay the smackdown in the comments phrogdriver :) Not bad for a "Bell-Boeing PR hack" !

HIPPIES http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-10-2008/marines-in-berkeley

Anna Chapman Nice mugshots comrade :tongue2_1

Official info on the snow camo gear: www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/sites/pmice/InfoPapers/clothing/2009/SnowCamo_2009.pdf

Anyone get to read this yet? A Nightmare's Prayer: A Marine Harrier Pilot's War in Afghanistan

22 a/c formation over MCAS Miramar, on May 4th. Pics from The Flight Jacket. Video: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/military/vmix_818f3c64-57bb-11df-8cde-001cc4c03286.html

True legend. I read his own account of that fateful morning in Beyond Glory. Here's a great excerpt: "Those Goddamn Japs, I should have hated 'em. Those bastards screwed up my nooky on a Sunday morning [...] About the time I saw a plane flash by my window, I'm laying flat, and my wife had...

I came across this on Digg a long while back, and the air show scenario appears to be real: Story: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200701.htm High-res pic...

Hold the bayo. Get a chainsaw instead :)

For some reason, nekkid chicks always did it for me :) But yeah, the link's NSFW

Very interesting, never heard about this before. Here's some more info on the battle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_H%E1%BB%9Bi http://www.lostbattalion.com/t-cw_BattleoffDongHoi2.aspx

I'm supposed to fly to Europe for a wedding next week. This is all pretty unfortunate as I'm the best man...or was one. Personally I think a volcanic eruption is a sure sign of God trying to put a stop to this wedding. :tongue2_1

Congrats!

Here's a 6-min excerpt from Episode 5, depicting D-Day on Peleliu. http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzyqnmnmm5h/Peleliu%20Landings.mkv

At least they didn't call him Baraka...

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I'm not sure I'm understanding...Every account I've read about the Marines on the 'Canal mentions them being equipped with Springfields, even months after the invasion. Or is the O3A3 specifically, the wrong variant for the time period? :confused:

Roger that, although there's a few civilian organizations through which you can get there also (not cheap): http://www.stephenambrosetours.com/tours/pacific-over.html

Very nice. I hope to visit most of the Pacific battlefields some day.

Women's Day passed, but better late then never:

I don't get the hate behind "Rescue Dawn"; I thought it was pretty damn good, even though it diverged from the real life account in some instances. And you gotta love the opening:

Rog, it was "Hell's Angels." I guess "Memphis Belle" was just a more homefront-friendly, and marketable name. Back to The Pacific: Second episode was much better. John Basilone's actions were extremely time-compressed and somewhat glossed over, but that's the nature of the beast. This line...

Don't wanna get too off-topic, but...The Hollywood 'Memphis Belle' movie was initially supposed to be about a fictional B-17 crew, which explains why the fliers seem to go through every possible disaster in the course of one mission. Somewhere along the way, the studios decided to make it about...

Interesting paint job. What's the story behind it? Is that the CO's bird?

The Merlins vid is CGI :)

A Phrog trying to cross the street and not get run over by evil V-22s. (Yes, I was bored)

It's the only way to be sure...

You can watch the first episode here if you don't have HBO: http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/episodes/0/01-part-1/video/part-1-full-episode.html#/the-pacific/episodes/0/01-part-1/video/part-1-full-episode.html/ I thought the episode was pretty decent and I'm really glad they're being very un-PC...

Is that a Weyland-Yutani bag? :D

I came in here ready to make a Blue Thunder reference, appropriate screencap ready to go, only to see it was already done in the article. :icon_rage Pretty neat though.

Contracts are not being cancelled, but there's definitely a lot less of them going around. All spots (OCC anyway) are now super competitive - think ~290 PFT.

Everyone here is a bunch of meanie poopooheads :(

Same exact thing happened in NYC a few weeks back, over a LEGO toy of all things. As A4s says, "I weep"... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Boy-Threatened-With-Suspension-Over-Toy-Gun-83473992.html

False. Capoeira was started by African slaves; the "dance" part of it was used to hide its true deadly intent in plain sight of the slave-masters. In the 17-19th centuries, capoeira fighters were used as mercenaries/bodyguards with such deadly effectiveness, its practice was officially...

The clip is from a movie (the name escapes me), it's not "real."

Here's a pretty fun article on Antarctic living (although from a civilian point of view): http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/antarctica-living-working.php

This is it: http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145907 The artist in question is Glen Angus http://www.gangus.net/ http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4169

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937849,00.html In 1959, Lt.Col. William Rankin (a WW2/Korean War vet) was flying his F-8 when he was forced to eject at 45,000 feet. He parachuted straight into a thunderstorm formation and was...

http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/39632/at-war-photographers-best-shots Some of LIFE's best war photographs of the last 9 years.