Your correspondent at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (aka TOPGUN) circa 1996
Yeah. You’d be smiling too.
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Portrait of the blogger as a young(er) manBy lex, on June 23rd, 2006
June 23rd, 2006 | Tags: sea stories | Category: Uncategorized
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Great pic…..CAPT.
Looking “dangerous.”
Sweet pic, sir.
The image of a legend.
Just great. I recall your pictures as a moustachioed youngster, as an OO of USS Lastship, but this is simply the best.
Hmmmmm….
The Hobbit is a lucky woman (but we’ve all known that for a long while now).
Made me smile just to look at it, Lex.
Too bad we can’t see those mischevious sparkling eyes, though…
Sir, is that an Aggressor F-16 tail behind you? If so, I’d be smiling too if that was my ride.
But oh, how it pained the Topgun guys to be wearing that triangular patch on the front!
Gee Lex, nice watch you got there shipmate.
Big watch …little…
Nah. That’s a fighter pilot son!
B2
CPT J, that F-16 in the background is on a slab, bolted down for display. Now, if you find one with a Fighting Blackbird emblem on it, you’re onto something.