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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

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'Miss Piggy I' apparently (at least that one).

A guy in my reserve unit was an LSO on the Midway during the Gulf War and said she would make a daily trip to all the carriers to deliver the ATO. Apparently they couldn't transmit way back then so they delivered a paper copy to each carrier every day, then the airwing guys would dig into it to find what they were supposed to fly the next day.

Some former VRC-50 'Foo Dog' pilots in VQ-1, the squadron they were assigned to at the time, said they were 'an IG hotline call waiting to happen'. They had six bucket seats in the back and were used for all sorts of cross country trips from their homebase at Subic then Guam.
 
I was in VA-86 aboard CVN-68 during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. We had the eight MH-53's onboard that made the ill-fated rescue attempt. To make room for the big helos, VS-24 was kicked off and temporarily assigned to Diego Garcia. Using their S-3's (precursor to the US-3A), they became our COD support for 5 months, making daily runs to the ship, bringing mail, parts, etc. One of my AOCS classmates was a JO in -24, and he kept our JO bunk room supplied with liquid refreshments. He also brought our squadron a small coconut palm planted in an empty 5 gal coffee tin, and the responsibility of our SDO each day was to take "Fred" the palm tree up to the flight deck each day for some sun, much like the movie "Mr. Roberts". Sadly, we were forced to give "Fred" a proper Navy burial at sea before getting back to Norfolk, as the customs people wouldn't permit his relocation to the USA.
 
Flash said:
'Miss Piggy I' apparently (at least that one).

A guy in my reserve unit was an LSO on the Midway during the Gulf War and said she would make a daily trip to all the carriers to deliver the ATO. Apparently they couldn't transmit way back then so they delivered a paper copy to each carrier every day, then the airwing guys would dig into it to find what they were supposed to fly the next day.

Some former VRC-50 'Foo Dog' pilots in VQ-1, the squadron they were assigned to at the time, said they were 'an IG hotline call waiting to happen'. They had six bucket seats in the back and were used for all sorts of cross country trips from their homebase at Subic then Guam.
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The ATO runs were flown by War Hoovers from the deployed VS squadrons. Piggy stayed busy with COD duties more suited to it's modifications.
 
@ChuckMK23 posted in the weather thread that there's a gnarly amount of smoke in the air.. and he's right! I took this about an hour ago in Boston at the Tall Ships 250 festival in clear daylight with no filter. This is the German training ship Gorch Fork:

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In the background you can see the Portuguese ship Sagre. (Not pictured: me exchanging coins with a German crew member.)
 
number9 said:
@ChuckMK23 posted in the weather thread that there's a gnarly amount of smoke in the air.. and he's right! I took this about an hour ago in Boston at the Tall Ships 250 festival in clear daylight with no filter. This is the German training ship Gorch Fork:

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In the background you can see the Portuguese ship Sagre. (Not pictured: me exchanging coins with a German crew member.)
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All that haze is keeping the sun off of my big head at least.
 
wink said:
The ATO runs were flown by War Hoovers from the deployed VS squadrons. Piggy stayed busy with COD duties more suited to it's modifications.
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Guess it was a Midway only thing then, since she didn't have a VS squadron.
 
A photo I pulled off of one of my Florida History pages. Taken at NAS Pensacola about 1915. Among the names in there, Bronson, Scofield, Corry. Somebody tell Lt. (jg) Bronson to get his hands out of his pockets.

I spent many a night in the 70's in Boy Scouts camping at Bronson OLF.
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VMO4 said:
A photo I pulled off of one of my Florida History pages. Taken at NAS Pensacola about 1915. Among the names in there, Bronson, Scofield, Corry. Somebody tell Lt. (jg) Bronson to get his hands out of his pockets.

I spent many a night in the 70's in Boy Scouts camping at Bronson OLF.
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Pretty intresting to consider that some of these guys would have known Spig Wead.
 
VMO4 said:
A photo I pulled off of one of my Florida History pages. Taken at NAS Pensacola about 1915. Among the names in there, Bronson, Scofield, Corry. Somebody tell Lt. (jg) Bronson to get his hands out of his pockets.

I spent many a night in the 70's in Boy Scouts camping at Bronson OLF.
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Oh…I see…you’re going to bust Bronson s balls for hands in the pocket but let Corry get away with having his collar unbuttoned and his cover pushed back like he’s a locomotive engineer. Check your standards mister!
 
Those names all bring back memories. Bronson, Corry, Ellyson. NAS Pensacola used to be super supportive of Scouting. We used to do our annual scouting physicals at the base hospital, and had annual scouting trips to Bronson OLF, and used to camp down by Sherman Cove when it was just vacant land. Listening to T2's and A4's doing bounces all night. One camp out, it got so cold it snowed, yes it does that in Florida sometimes. The Navy felt so sorry for us they let us all eat in the enlisted mess all weekend. Endless chocolate milk, I can still taste it. The fact my troop was full of then current and retired 0-5 and 0-6 aviators did not hurt either.
 
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