Me thin's the bullsheet meeter has rung!
I was in the Navy for 8 years as an Aviation Electrician's Mate. I used to work on S-3, P-3, H-60, and F/A-18 aircraft. I have been stationed at NAS North Island, CA and NAS Patuxent River, MD. Patuxent River was kinda cool. It is the Navy's air test center. Lots of flight test aircraft and prototypes. I actually stayed there for a year after I got out of the Nav and worked for Boeing on the Super Hornet flight test program.
I have been floating on USS Kitty Hawk, USS Nimitz, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Harry S. Truman. All the cruises that I made were all Westpac, or western pacific/Indian ocean/arabian gulf cruises. Those were long. I got to visit a lot of really cool places though. I liked going to other countries and seeing how other cultures lived. I have also visited other bases in the US on detachments.
I enjoyed my time in the Nav. Sometimes I wish I was still in.
I don't think this guy had enough time in to be on all the carriers he claims he was on! Something just stinks about his story. Most cruises were 6 to 9 months in lenght. I should ask what squadrons he was with, then I could check on the deployments for each of the carriers he claims to have been on.
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"I fly this plane for my country, when it stops flying it's not my fault, it's the countrys." CDR Fred "Bear" Vogt. The Last Skipper of VF-33's, F-4's.
A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it. -- Author Unknown
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