Semper Fi, jarheads!
11-11-15, 12:51 PM
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Happy Birthday fellow Jarheads
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11-11-15, 02:48 PM
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Any of you Juggies served at CLNC between the 50's and 80's, check this out:
Camp Lejeune: Past Water Contamination - Public Health
The VA has finally come around for us. Anyone with any of the 15 conditions listed is being treated like AO exposure... No benies yet but medical.
verktyg
Chas.
Camp Lejeune: Past Water Contamination - Public Health
The VA has finally come around for us. Anyone with any of the 15 conditions listed is being treated like AO exposure... No benies yet but medical.
verktyg
Chas.
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Chas. ;-)
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11-11-15, 04:33 PM
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Grew up in J'ville ( Camp Lejeune ) and my Dad was a Marine earning a purple heart on Iwo Jima, so I have jarhead DNA. Belated Happy Birthday and Happy Veterans Day to all who have served !
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11-11-15, 05:43 PM
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That explains my insanity.
Any of you Juggies served at CLNC between the 50's and 80's, check this out:
Camp Lejeune: Past Water Contamination - Public Health
The VA has finally come around for us. Anyone with any of the 15 conditions listed is being treated like AO exposure... No benies yet but medical.
verktyg
Chas.
Camp Lejeune: Past Water Contamination - Public Health
The VA has finally come around for us. Anyone with any of the 15 conditions listed is being treated like AO exposure... No benies yet but medical.
verktyg
Chas.
11-11-15, 07:50 PM
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Aviation is dangerous.. no question about that. I witnessed a TA-4J from VT-24 crash on takeoff while I was in Yuma. Fortunately, no one else was hurt (the pilot didn't survive), despite the aircraft sliding into VT-24's flight line and nearly going into the hangar!
11-12-15, 01:47 PM
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The Skyhawk was a great, minimalist design, and certainly counts as "C&V" by now! The Skyhawk continues to serve in different ways... Brazil is flying reworked American Skyhawks, including one that I used to work on! They are also being used domestically to provide "aggressor" services to the armed forces.
Aviation is dangerous.. no question about that. I witnessed a TA-4J from VT-24 crash on takeoff while I was in Yuma. Fortunately, no one else was hurt (the pilot didn't survive), despite the aircraft sliding into VT-24's flight line and nearly going into the hangar!
Aviation is dangerous.. no question about that. I witnessed a TA-4J from VT-24 crash on takeoff while I was in Yuma. Fortunately, no one else was hurt (the pilot didn't survive), despite the aircraft sliding into VT-24's flight line and nearly going into the hangar!
11-13-15, 08:47 AM
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The Skyhawk was a great, minimalist design, and certainly counts as "C&V" by now! The Skyhawk continues to serve in different ways... Brazil is flying reworked American Skyhawks, including one that I used to work on! They are also being used domestically to provide "aggressor" services to the armed forces.
Aviation is dangerous.. no question about that. I witnessed a TA-4J from VT-24 crash on takeoff while I was in Yuma. Fortunately, no one else was hurt (the pilot didn't survive), despite the aircraft sliding into VT-24's flight line and nearly going into the hangar!
Aviation is dangerous.. no question about that. I witnessed a TA-4J from VT-24 crash on takeoff while I was in Yuma. Fortunately, no one else was hurt (the pilot didn't survive), despite the aircraft sliding into VT-24's flight line and nearly going into the hangar!
Bill
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I Can Do All Things Through Him, Who Gives Me Strength. Philippians 4:13
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11-13-15, 08:01 PM
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at the risk of turning this into the C&V of Naval Aviation... let me say that it was LCdr TR Swartz that shot down that MiG, and there is an A-4C at the Warbird Heritage Foundation (Waukeegan Illinois) that sports the paint scheme of his bird....
and speaking of A-4M's, the training squadron that I belonged to was equipped with 16 of them (or so). They were the second version of A-4M's, which mean that the UHF radio was actually solid state instead of being built with vacuum tubes! This was the late 70's! ...yeah, the Corps doesn't normally get the newest, shiniest stuff.
I've got a photo from my first flight ... the other aircraft in our flight was an A-4M, looking very beautiful in the fading sunlight....
Steve in Peoria
and speaking of A-4M's, the training squadron that I belonged to was equipped with 16 of them (or so). They were the second version of A-4M's, which mean that the UHF radio was actually solid state instead of being built with vacuum tubes! This was the late 70's! ...yeah, the Corps doesn't normally get the newest, shiniest stuff.
I've got a photo from my first flight ... the other aircraft in our flight was an A-4M, looking very beautiful in the fading sunlight....
Steve in Peoria
