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That weapon system was the Phalanx CIWS (close in weapon system, pronounced Cwiz)… That was official… It fires 20mm depleted uranium rounds… Another tracking weapon system I worked on could track individual rounds going outbound.

However, Cwiz was called a very different name by weapon system guys like me…

It was called R2 or R2D2 or R2 with a H****. I’ll leave the last name to your imagination… Minion is also perfect.

 

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We had a missile shoot drill on the aircraft carrier. It took them 4 tries over a 2 hour period to get the missile to launch. The Captain was not happy. The next drill we had a new officer in charge of the missile division the missile fired the first time and hit the drone.

 

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Someone has some explaining to do.

 

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Just a reminder that the US Military stopped buying Remington 870's in the 1960's.

Mossberg 590 for the win.

 

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For you Navy vets.

 

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Ahhh! Isn't that cute! Little red handled brackets to help the guy in the middle or top rack climb up or down... pampered %$#!

The old way out of the top rack was to slide out and hope you didn't land on someone. To climb up... you were on your own! What ever it took.

Lower ranking guys who couldn't afford an apartment lived in those racks year round. (rack... another word for bunk)

 

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For you Navy vets.

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Those are very nice. I lived in one of them for 10 months that wasn't that new.
I lived in much worse for 7 months.
USS Coral Sea CVA43 the berthing looked like this and there was a steam pipe that ran through the compartment. The temps could get well over 100°.

 

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I wrote Happy 4th of July Ho Che Mien on a couple of 2,000 pounders. A lot of ordnance has messages written on it. Most can't be repeated in polite company. The red shirts didn't mind.

 

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I think we can all agree on this.

 

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TRAITOR BITCH

 

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Nephew got to see both teams fly over Atlanta today. He was excitied. Like me he loves air shows.

 

[kd4ulw]

They don’t fly together very often. Nice for them to do it as a salute to those who have given so much.

 

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I'd love to see both teams perform together. What a show that would be

 

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I've seen the blue angles fly maybe, 8 or 9 times. I've never seen the thunderbirds, not once. To see them together would have been a thrill!

Being ex navy the angles seemed to turn up where ever I was for years, even after I left the navy.

 

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The Blues are a better show IMO. I've seen both both half a dozen times. I enjoy both very much.

 

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The best air show I have ever seen was when they dropped live ordnance. They started off with small practice bombs and worked up to 4 A6s flying wingtip to wingtip dropping 1000 pounders in low-level formation. A string of 1000 pound bombs from 4 aircraft make a big splash and the concussion could be felt even from the several miles the carrier was from them.
A flight of F4 at full power traveling at under 1000 feet and breaking the sound barrier still gives me goosebumps.
The flight deck picnic, later on, was pretty good too.

 

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Jim

 

[kd4ulw]

May 8, 1945

 

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