The chickens are coming home to roost in military aviation… This is just one of the many examples that are now leaking out from the military via various means… The F/A-18s needs spare parts and in too many cases they’re … Continue reading
Category Archives: honoring our military
Yep, they DO run… Need some land plowed??? Centurion heading out to ‘play’… And a series of rifles… 03, 03A3, M-1, M-1 Carbine, all with bayonets… Drool… Edit- Thanks to Roger, the second one down is actually an Eddystone in … Continue reading
Normally I’d do a WWII poster today, but since we were at the tank show I decided to do something a bit different today. At breakfast yesterday we had a great discussion on America’s ability to step up and do … Continue reading
Met up with Prof Hale and his lovely lady for breakfast then out to the Americans In Wartime tank show this morning. We also met up with Jay G and Boy G at the show. It was much nicer for … Continue reading
This one comes with a few memories… Cafe Acores, George the Crook, Fast Eddies, Matteus Rose, goat cheese and fresh bread, beautiful filigree silver and gold jewelry… Oh yeah, and winds that would blow your ass sideways… There was a … Continue reading
October 4-5 2014 South of Manassas, VA Link HERE. Any of the DC area folks interested, let me know the day you’d prefer and maybe we can get some folks together. A $10 donation requested to help maintain the equipment. Looks like … Continue reading
I ‘do’ have some patches… In answer to an email question, here are two theater made patches from VP-4 that are on my flight jacket… This is the ‘skinny’ Skinny Dragon logo. And our Crew 1A (Alpha status, meaning we … Continue reading
Twelve humanoid shapes shambled across the dark concrete in a line, other than the occasional mutter nothing is heard… Footsteps sound on a metal ladder as one of the shapes climbs into darkness, and with a clank a darker spot appears in … Continue reading
And back around to the Coast Guard… I couldn’t find any details on this one, but it’s an interesting one for the ‘history’ perspective it brings in. The Coast Guard’s official history began on 4 August 1790 when President … Continue reading
I didn’t know this, but apparently there were also recruiting ‘postcards’… Not just recruiting posters… Here’s one from the Air Corps, I ‘think’ this might have been one of those! It was one of the last done by Howard … Continue reading