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My 2 knuckleheads..................
Sorry, not military but I couldn't hep myself, lol.
571st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron members in front of an A-10 Thunderbolt II, tail no. 80-0252, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, July 31, 2019. The aircraft is from the Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, home of the 23d Wing Flying Tigers, a unit that traces its lineage back to the Flying Tigers of WWII that painted sharks teeth on the nose of the P-40 Warhawk fighter planes they flew. This is the last of 173 A-10 aircraft to receive new wings under the Enhanced Wing Assembly program to extend the flying service life of the A-10 fleet. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd)
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Hate to be the one to break it to them but armour plating the torso doesn't help when you get shot in the head.
Easy group to fight. Just come up with some magnetic weapons
My ex-ride , over 50 years ago.
Jim
Jim
Hope he doesn't have that on full auto, he'll find himself upside down in a flash.
Not a lot of cover or concealment up there either.
A friend in Vietnam… I spent 4 months restoring his photo. He passed not long after I finished it. 
Ok video not photo ... fiction loosely based on truth ... one of my favourite movie scenes ... the Canadians arrive Devils Brigade. There are some technical errors for sure ... but in tribute to the men of both countries who served..
Being a navy guy I occasionally go online and check the photo's of the current generation of ships...
These days Cruisers and Destroyers look so much alike. At a casual glance they both use the same Hull. The only real difference is the armament package... When I was in the Ticonderoga class cruiser and Spruance class destroyers did use the exact same hull down to the inch.
I think I need to drive to Jacksonville or Norfolk and get a base tour to get caught up...
Sort of funny... we were anchored in a bay in Puerto Rico with a Tico cruiser. Close to land we weren't supposed to turn on certain radars. Being in combat systems that meant all of ours. The Tico used the first generation Aegis phased array radar system.
It was a beautiful evening, the little town was all lit up as well as all the homes up the mountain side. Someone on the Tico turned on the Aegis radar system.
It blew out every light bulb on that mountain... One moment a picturesque scene of beauty... the next, darkness... I would have hated to be the guy responsible for $40K in light bulbs.
These days Cruisers and Destroyers look so much alike. At a casual glance they both use the same Hull. The only real difference is the armament package... When I was in the Ticonderoga class cruiser and Spruance class destroyers did use the exact same hull down to the inch.
I think I need to drive to Jacksonville or Norfolk and get a base tour to get caught up...
Sort of funny... we were anchored in a bay in Puerto Rico with a Tico cruiser. Close to land we weren't supposed to turn on certain radars. Being in combat systems that meant all of ours. The Tico used the first generation Aegis phased array radar system.
It was a beautiful evening, the little town was all lit up as well as all the homes up the mountain side. Someone on the Tico turned on the Aegis radar system.
It blew out every light bulb on that mountain... One moment a picturesque scene of beauty... the next, darkness... I would have hated to be the guy responsible for $40K in light bulbs.
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"Bell AH-1Z Viper and known as Zulu Cobra."
I spent 4 years in the Marines working on Cobra's (and Huey's). Awesome aircraft.
I spent 4 years in the Marines working on Cobra's (and Huey's). Awesome aircraft.
I watched a show about the new super carriers.Being a navy guy I occasionally go online and check the photo's of the current generation of ships...
These days Cruisers and Destroyers look so much alike. At a casual glance they both use the same Hull. The only real difference is the armament package... When I was in the Ticonderoga class cruiser and Spruance class destroyers did use the exact same hull down to the inch.
I think I need to drive to Jacksonville or Norfolk and get a base tour to get caught up...
Sort of funny... we were anchored in a bay in Puerto Rico with a Tico cruiser. Close to land we weren't supposed to turn on certain radars. Being in combat systems that meant all of ours. The Tico used the first generation Aegis phased array radar system.
It was a beautiful evening, the little town was all lit up as well as all the homes up the mountain side. Someone on the Tico turned on the Aegis radar system.
It blew out every light bulb on that mountain... One moment a picturesque scene of beauty... the next, darkness... I would have hated to be the guy responsible for $40K in light bulbs.
My wife asked me if there were that many women on the carriers I served on.
I remember 1 woman in 3 cruises and she was Miss World or something and just visiting for about 6 hours.
She was escorted by armed Marines at all times.
There was a working girl from Australia that was going to get rich. She was quickly discovered and given a free helicopter ride back to Perth the first day.
We were not even allowed to rotate the radar dome on the E2 when we were on the ship.
Some A6 jockey shut down communications in Seattle when he fired up his jamming systems.
While writing that post yesterday I got to thinking about Norfolk where I was stationed 4 years. More to the point thinking about cell service in the area... I was there before cell phones...
In port doing maintenance on radars and missile systems there were a lot of rules which were always being broken. People were lighting off powerful radars on a daily basis... Enough power to knock out dozens of cell towers for miles and keep them off line for hours.
In port doing maintenance on radars and missile systems there were a lot of rules which were always being broken. People were lighting off powerful radars on a daily basis... Enough power to knock out dozens of cell towers for miles and keep them off line for hours.
