thank you all that have served and are currently serving.
Semper Fidelis
and to those before us, Fair winds and following seas
thank you all that have served and are currently serving.
Semper Fidelis
and to those before us, Fair winds and following seas
Thanks for sharing some of your history.
and Thank you for your service.
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
I was out of the Navy when you enlisted. The memories are lifelong, aren't they....
Dysfunctional Disturbed Disabled Debonair Navy Veteran
Swift Boats, Vietnam, 1967-1968.
"You are never too old to learn something stupid."
With all of the OLD salts here we could start a page of "SEA STORIES" and share silly memories.
Well at least silly to us NOW.
WE WON. WE BEAT THE MACHINE. WE HAVE CCW NOW.
Joined April 1 96 and reported to "Great Mistakes" Illinois. Honorably discharged April 1 01. Thank you for your service.
You can miss fast & you can miss a lot, but only hits count.
BM,
I was a Nuclear MM on the California, CGN-36, from Jan 78 to Jun 80 and I am quite familiar with the profile of the Nimitz. We followed it around for two Med Cruises and one trip to the Persian Gulf after the Iranians decided to "borrow" our embassy and personnel. I loved going up on the signal bridge, without invite of course, to watch night time flight operations on the big "bird farm". The pilots who land on a carrier at night are either the bravest folks in the world or the dumbest.
BB
Good story BrassMagnet! I enlisted five years earlier and served just three years. Looks like the Navy done you good.
ARMY Viet-Nam 70-71
THANKS for your service and you are right, AMERICA is a good movie!!
Ed
It was fun to look at the pictures. Thank you for your service!
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
Ron,
Should have guessed you were a fellow sailor. ATR2 1966-1971. VW-1 and VAQ-132(aboard CVA-66 USS America).
Fair winds and following seas brother.
Jay
Congrats on your service. I enlisted in the AF five days after you enlisted in the Navy. I also "retired" in 96, but took a job as a defense contractor, so I haven't stopped "serving" yet.
Thank You for your service.
Just another OLD sailor and AE2.
1956-1959 VA 86 aboard the Randu Can Du for her last cruise as a CVA then onto the Independence for her first trip to Gitmo.
Repaired most everything from the Gutless Cutlass (F7U-3M) till they gave us the A4D-2 to take to the Med and see if they were worthy of carrying the wording NAVY on her side.
She did indeed deserve that honor for more than 20 years.
Glad to see you never got caught at anything.
Those GOLD stripes sure look good on you.
WE WON. WE BEAT THE MACHINE. WE HAVE CCW NOW.
Thank you for your sacrifice and service.
If you think your a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Hear--Hear--
Thank you Sir,
Sam
Hate is like drinking poison and hoping the other man dies.
*Cohesiveness* *Leadership* *a common cause***
***In a gunfight your expected to be an active participant in your own rescue***
The effective range of an excuse is ZERO Meters
It would be easy to call you a 'Jeep', since I RETIRED from the USAF in '74 after 20 years, plus another 6 mos in Texas ANG before.
But I won't - thank you for your service, glad you never got caught - me too (GCM w/2 knots, for enlisted time - after commissioning, Officers are SUPPOSED to be Good, so no GCM for them).
Echo
USAF Ret
DPS, 2600
NRA Benefactor
O&U
One of the most endearing sights in the world is the vision of a naked good-looking woman leaving the bedroom to make breakfast. Bolivar Shagnasty (I believe that Lazarus Long also said it, but I can't find any record of it.)
Looks like 74 was a good year. I went in the Army in June 74 and retired in 94. Sometimes I miss those days, but most of the time I am glad to have left things in the capable hands of those who followed. To those who served I salute you.
Starbits
"Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds." Louis L'Amour The Walking Drum
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |