On 5/17/2020 at 9:44 PM, Gunny said:

My knee hurts just thinking about how many times I would nail that thing.  

kinda lilke walking into a trailer hitch in back of a car of truck...

6 minutes ago, p_toad said:

kinda lilke walking into a trailer hitch in back of a car of truck...

17 minutes ago, p_toad said:

kinda lilke walking into a trailer hitch in back of a car of truck...

or the tow bar on the front of an airplane during night ops on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier 

18 hours ago, p_toad said:

kinda lilke walking into a trailer hitch in back of a car of truck...

No @Gunny

...More like............then..........

Edited May 21, 20205 yr by Larry Buskirk

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

No @Gunny

...More like............then..........

Well the use of colorful language is a given. Kinda like math a right angle is 90 degrees.  In theory.

Edited May 21, 20205 yr by Gunny

3 hours ago, Gunny said:

Well the use of colorful language is a given. Kinda like math a right angle is 90 degrees.  In theory.

Does that mean a left angle is 180° 

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Does that mean a left angle is 180° 

No that means it is demented.  

On 5/20/2020 at 8:02 PM, lew said:

or the tow bar on the front of an airplane during night ops on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier 

@Lew, those tow bars for A-7 and F-8's were shin high.  They hurt worse.  Oh, if you could just think of some dirty words, you could feel better quicker.  

Same for the A6. One moonless night off the North Vietnam coast I tripped over the same one three times. Never said I was too coordinated 

@Lew, which ship and what year?  I was an AK in VA-147 on the USS Ranger and USS America.  Ranger from December 1968 (highlined from USS Neches to Ranger) to June 1969 and America all of 1970.  

15 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

@Lew, which ship and what year?  I was an AK in VA-147 on the USS Ranger and USS America.  Ranger from December 1968 (highlined from USS Neches to Ranger) to June 1969 and America all of 1970.  

USS Constellation (CVA-64) with VA-65, 1966. I was an AQ-F3. Worked on the radars and computers of the A-6 Intruder.

Oh, you worked under the dome where everything was tight.  I remember seeing them.  We had VA-165 onboard USS America in 1970 when we cross the equator 4 times, circled the globe and encountered a couple or Russian Bearcats as we were flexing our muscles in the China Sea after the seizure of the USS Pueblo.  Talk about cold.  Thanks for your service and welcome home, Lew.