Clearly you just lack imagination.
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- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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Clearly you just lack imagination.
Somewhat in the same vein of animals vs aircraft (or sonars I suppose), we had a birdstrike over at about FL240 Kuwait that ruined the radome. One of the pilots and the FE both saw it right before impact, it being a dark blur about the size of a large bird, and it left a nice dark colored dent on the radome. A little while later we found out that VP-30 apparently mocked our report and told other squadrons we were full of shit, birds don't fly that high (they do). Didn't really engender fond feelings towards the RAG, which weren't all that great to begin with at the time.
Happened to catch 1954’s The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart last night. Excellent movie, based on the Pullitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk - based on his experiences aboard the destroyers turned minesweepers USS Zane DD-337 / DMS-19 and USS Southard DD-207 / DMS-10.
USS Zane as a 1919 Clemson class destroyer.
Destroyer/Minesweeper USS Zane (DMS-14) after repair at Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco, California in September 1943. Note the three smokestacks of the fully configured minesweeper.
USS Southard (DD-207) underway on 20 April 1932.
USS Southard (DMS-10) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942.
USS Zane as a 1919 Clemson class destroyer.
Destroyer/Minesweeper USS Zane (DMS-14) after repair at Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco, California in September 1943. Note the three smokestacks of the fully configured minesweeper.
USS Southard (DD-207) underway on 20 April 1932.
USS Southard (DMS-10) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 June 1942.
I’m holding on for some CO to replace his “Don’t Tread On Me” flag with a “Hands Off My Strawberries” flag…just for a day.
The SS United States is finally being put to rest.
Growing up, for several summers we'd sail down to Norfolk from Annapolis and take in the sites. On the transit from Willoghby Bay (where I could watch all of the H-2s flying day and night) to Portsmouth (where there was a nice anchorage and marina off the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and you could take the ferry over to Harborside), we'd go past all of the ships lined up at the Norfolk pier. Of course there were the standard CRUDES and carriers, but farther down you'd see all kinds of interesting pieces of history including one of four remaining Liberty ships and the very worn out United States.
I'm amazed she's still around even after 40 years from when I saw her. But at least she'll provide a good home for the fishes.
Growing up, for several summers we'd sail down to Norfolk from Annapolis and take in the sites. On the transit from Willoghby Bay (where I could watch all of the H-2s flying day and night) to Portsmouth (where there was a nice anchorage and marina off the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and you could take the ferry over to Harborside), we'd go past all of the ships lined up at the Norfolk pier. Of course there were the standard CRUDES and carriers, but farther down you'd see all kinds of interesting pieces of history including one of four remaining Liberty ships and the very worn out United States.
I'm amazed she's still around even after 40 years from when I saw her. But at least she'll provide a good home for the fishes.