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Best Naval Aviation movies

number9

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That's pretty cool, thanks for posting! My other comment about uniforms was that service dress khakis actually look pretty good.
 

ChuckMK23

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I liked Flight of the Intruder as a kid, and re-watched it over the weekend.

From a naval aviation perspective, how accurate was it? Carrier life, flight ops, etc.? And perhaps most importantly of all: what's with the camo pattern that LCDR Cole was wearing?!
Mid 60's saw crews - both fixed wing and helo - adopt locally acquired (made in PI) flight suits or fatigues in Tiger Stripe patterns. Some were made onboard ship by PR's

Helo (SH-3A)

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and

Adm Stockdale - stepping out of what I assume is an A-4

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Then LTJG Clyde Lassen, wearing sateen OD107 fatigues during SAR mission over North Vietnam where as a HAC flying the HH-2C with HC-7, was awarded the MOH for valor.

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Sidenote: In Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, a general order was published allowing Navy aircrews to wear standard two-piece "chocolate chip" desert camo cotton BDU in lieu of green flight suit. Generally worn by A-6 and A-7 crews from what I saw on Saratoga and America. Tucked in.
 
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number9

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The other thing I was wondering: is it normal to not wear any ribbons at all in khakis? I think there were a few scenes where CDR Camparelli didn't have anything on his chest... but maybe the rules don't apply to 3rd generation mafia ;)

And at the court martial, the JAG CAPT only had two rows. If he was only wearing the top 3 I'd understand, but two rows?!
 

Griz882

Frightening children with the Griz-O-Copter!
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The other thing I was wondering: is it normal to not wear any ribbons at all in khakis? I think there were a few scenes where CDR Camparelli didn't have anything on his chest... but maybe the rules don't apply to 3rd generation mafia ;)

And at the court martial, the JAG CAPT only had two rows. If he was only wearing the top 3 I'd understand, but two rows?!
Ribbons aren’t typically worn at sea. Two rows of ribbons is quite ordinary for a career officer in the 1960’s and 70’s time frame.
 

number9

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Ribbons aren’t typically worn at sea. Two rows of ribbons is quite ordinary for a career officer in the 1960’s and 70’s time frame.
Thank you! I guess I forgot the JAG probably would have commissioned as a LTJG (as they do today), so that's a chunk of time where he wouldn't have earned anything compared to someone who came in as an ENS.
 
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Griz882

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RIP…”Gunny” Foley has passed on…now future generations not only “got nowhere else to go,” they won’t have anyone to tell them how to get there.

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Lou Gossett Jr. 1936-2024.
 
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