Molaker
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Okay you Spook men, did any of you ever do Top Gun at Yuma? Or hot pad duty at Key West (Boca Chica)? Or smuggle Coors back to the east Oceana in a blivet?
jje1960 said:O my the memories... Flat out, F4, my favorite ever. I remember when the top speed was not listed (most probably would have torn the airframe apart). I was stationed at Kaneohe Bay, 84'-87'. Came close to the back seat ride, requested for my re-enlistment... real close, like that week then someone got wind of it and no-go . Had a few friends on the VMFA side, I was over attached to 2/3 in 3rd Combat Engineers.
While with VMFA 212 in Hawai 2 of our F4s with 2 flight crews and support crew that included me were sent to Miramar for TopGun and each of us were awarded a TopGun Patch. While with VMFA 531 at El Toro we went to Yuma for a month and one of the things I remember from that was one of our F4s dropped his bombs late and wiped out several Mexican's cows that had to be paid for.Molaker said:Okay you Spook men, did any of you ever do Top Gun at Yuma? Or hot pad duty at Key West (Boca Chica)? Or smuggle Coors back to the east Oceana in a blivet?
Our expression was "Hair off the dog that bit me." ;Dbiting the dog that bit me,
After 65 days on Yankee Station a warm San Miguel wasn't that bad. Especially with a sweet young thing sitting on your lap at the Copacabana or East End Club. Just watch out for the butterfly knife, though. With those short mini-skirts, I never did figure out where they kept those dang things.rogertre said:San Migel was hard enough to drink at Cubi Pt. not to mention having it warm on the ship. I preferred Bloody Mary's at the Sky club just after duty section muster, the boss said something about biting the dog that bit me, so I went along. Hangover city. Oh to be young again.
That could be depressing.glen54737 said:I remember seeing the Arizona memorial every day for the first 6 months.
To me the Arizona memorial was never depressing. A solemn appreciation for those it entombs and a reminder of the cost of freedom, but never depressing. The memorial was completed just before my first Hawaii visit on board the USS Midway. The liberty launch taking us from Ford Island to mainside passed by the memorial and it was thrilling to be able to stand at attention and render a salute as we passed.Wendy said:That could be depressing.
The F4 used two J-79 (General Electric) engines. The F3 Demon had an Allison J-71. Maybe that's what you worked on.Ron from Big D said:If I'm not mistaken, the F4 used an Allison engine, which I did some testing of when I worked for them in 1955-56.
More my feeling about it too.Molaker said:To me the Arizona memorial was never depressing. A solemn appreciation for those it entombs and a reminder of the cost of freedom, but never depressing. The memorial was completed just before my first Hawaii visit on board the USS Midway. The liberty launch taking us from Ford Island to mainside passed by the memorial and it was thrilling to be able to stand at attention and render a salute as we passed.