Saw this one and couldn’t resist! It’s nine minutes long, but well worth it for the commentary if nothing else. From the Blues website- In 1946, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chester Nimitz, had a vision to create a … Continue reading
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Anybody ever been in a place like this? Or sat in the rockers out on the front porch? The proverbial old country store… One of my uncles ran one for years in Central Louisiana, carried pretty much everything from A-Z … Continue reading
For those old farts who did a west coast tour a question… Do you remember Cal Worthington and his dog Spot? If you do, you’ll laugh your ass off at this one… Strong language, so cover the kids ears! 🙂 … Continue reading
Way back this time… 1976, and a winter deployment to Northern Japan… I think I’d made E-6 a couple of months earlier. And was still trying to figure out the airplane, as I’d gone from a P-3B squadron to a … Continue reading
So I’m at a friend’s house, and she comes out with this… It’s a Ka-Bar… But… It’s not a Ka-Bar… Or is it??? PAL? Yep, it’s actually a PAL Blade Co, USMC issued 1219C2 USMC Mark 2 Combat Knife!!! And it’s stamped … Continue reading
Who remembers these??? If you were a Boy Scout back in the day, you probably lost as many of these as I did… Sigh… They are collapsible cups, and we always had one or two in our backpacks. Hint- DO … Continue reading
Back in the day… Men carried real watches… The one on the left is my grandfather’s Elgin pocket watch from the 1890s when he was a railroad engineer for Union Pacific. He carried that watch for over 60 years. The … Continue reading
Who remembers when this was the cat’s meow… I’m an old fart, my first modem was a 300 baud one… sigh… ARPNET/Compuserve… And BBS… And the first computer I ‘owned’ was a hand me down IBM XT, upgraded with a … Continue reading
Back in the day, we had more squadrons in all services than we do today… Somebody (probably an Admiral), decided they wanted a photo op of all the squadrons… Front to back, VP-5, VP-16, VP-24 (Batmen!), VP-45, VP-49, VP-56 And … Continue reading
Setting the way back machine… Thanks to Tina for this one, she donated it to this old sailor… If you ever wondered how they learned semaphore in the Navy, this is one of the ways… Sending the letter Y on … Continue reading