The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery

[Junkball]

Never noticed the horizontal stab folded on that Flanker

 

[Pugs]

Rotors stuck in the "flight" position. Looks like a palm tree. Not sure if it's a universal term, but I heard it on my nugget cruise and it stuck with me.

Funny those things you hear that stick with you. My 90/91 cruise on TR we had a boss who would remark every time the Prowler was arming and all the crew stuck their hands up "stagecoach robbery"

 

[nittany03]

Never noticed the horizontal stab folded on that Flanker

Didn't realize that the Kuznetsov carried Frogfoots as well. Or is it Frogfeet?

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

VA-12 Flying Ubangis

 

[phrogpilot73]

Looks like a palm tree. Not sure if it's a universal term, but I heard it on my nugget cruise and it stuck with me.

I'm pretty sure it's universal. I've never heard anything BUT palm tree...

 

[eyes2theskies]

nani?

 

[Pugs]

Chinfo 2008 year in review. Some of the pictures have been seen here some not but a nice job. Click on captions for details.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/visualnews/yr-pix08/start_here.html

 

[Alpha_Echo_606]

On the A-6/EA-6B it was not unusual that a slight mis-rigging or an extra g or two and you would come out of the wires and only one wing would fold. Then several deck crew would then have to grab the wingtip and have to vigorously shake it up and down to get the wing fold lugs to retract. You then recycle the handle and get them to both come up. Assume it still happens.

It was not a term of endearment for the ironworks products.

I remember this from more than 1 occasion from my time on the deck!

 

[bubblehead]

I finally scanned in some of my slides...

 

[Pags]

Are those the pictures from when you were on the Dallas and that Russian Typhoon wanted to defect?

 

[WALI_1980]

VMFA-134: These guys were flying out of Kadena for a while in 2007. Got this snap while I was deployed to PACOM.

JASDF F-2's below and a shot of a Phantom were taken in Misawa Japan during my visit to CTF-72. The Phantom shot is cropped and I can't seem to find the original picture but I still like the closeup.

 

[nugget61]

My dad found his old time capsule and opened it today and found some interesting things. If anyone can ID the ribbons I'd appreciate it, they should be circa WWII and I think Army. I know he had a purple heart and silver star, which might be two of them. (Bottom left one was from a Nazi that he operated on)

For the Docs, an authentic mash scalpel:

And the really interesting ones; my other grandfather was stationed to invade Japan in WWII and brought one of these home (front/back):

 

[Morgan81]

Top row: American Defense Medal, European/African/Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Bottom row: Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal

This is a good resource.

 

[OUSOONER]

Here are the ribbons for the Nazis.

http://axisawards.homestead.com/ribbons.html

If I'm reading it right L-R, War Merit Cross with Swords, 40 years state service (yikes), War Merit Medal 3rd Class.

Working for the state for 40 years..maybe he operated on someone quite interesting.

 

[Mumbles]

Army Love...

U.S. Army Pvt. Jeffery Hansen crouches after launching a 60mm mortar round from the mortar range on Forward Operating Base Lane in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2009. Hansen is assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment.
U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Adam Mancini