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10-20-2008, 07:10 PM

dbtownley

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10-20-2008, 07:14 PM

USMCFLYR

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dbt -

When were these photos taken and why have you been hiding them?

I see some *old corps* on that flight deck!

USMCFLYR

10-20-2008, 07:38 PM

Mitragorz

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I LOVE E-2s... Grumman used to build them right up the road from me.

10-20-2008, 07:41 PM

dbtownley

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dbt -

When were these photos taken and why have you been hiding them?

I see some *old corps* on that flight deck!

USMCFLYR

I was looking around my pictures and thought these were cool. They are around 2004 during my last deployment. I will dig some more out too, I have some good ones while the ship was going through the "ditch".

10-20-2008, 10:58 PM

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I see VF-103 Tomcats in the back.....so.....this must've been taken on the USS JFK? Otherwise I'm thinking the George Washington...

10-21-2008, 03:14 AM

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Well the JFK would be a pretty damn good guess seeing how it is printed on the VS-30 S-3! Great ship, did the 1999-2000 cruise on it and was ships company (Air OPs) until it decomm'd

10-21-2008, 08:42 AM

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Well the JFK would be a pretty damn good guess seeing how it is printed on the VS-30 S-3! Great ship, did the 1999-2000 cruise on it and was ships company (Air OPs) until it decomm'd

You looked much closer than I did! Good eye.

10-24-2008, 11:01 AM

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Great memories. Want to hear something sick? After 28 years in the airline biz, I would go back and do the boat thing all over again. Like everyone looking back at their youth, we didn't know how simple and easy we had it. Of course, no wars going on at the time....other than trying to keep the deck apes from getting high all the time in the 70s.

10-25-2008, 04:17 AM

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Hell, I am not even out yet ( 2 months to go) and I already miss it!, OK, maybe not the night CATS and Traps! but day time bagging, is just about better then sex! One day in the gulf, I was able to get 12 traps in just over 20 mins! I had a grin from ear to ear when I shut down and ran around thanking all the "deck apes" and the Boss of course!