Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
If someone complained about a Tomcat t-shirt,then some feminist will complain about this…….
That is awesome, I can just imagine the outrage in a group of al qaeda guys if this is the last thing they see right before the Marines pile out and get to down to business.
Love it but someone at or above our paygrade will see this and have a cow… and the spray guns will be a-sprayin’ soon.
These two fine examples of TPS were actually part of the first gulf war. I’m sure they were great for our brother’s in green’s morale!
Uh Rah!
Looks like you’ve been tooling around Aircraftresourcecenter.com ‘s stories and walk around section. There’s some good stuff there.
The story on that site that I am curious if you know any details of are the two F-18′s from the Fighting Omars that returned with numerous flight control hardware having been returned to the taxpayers after executing the rare not-so-near-miss!
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Stories1/001-100/0011_F-18_Mid-air/story0011.htm
-JC
Guess the only way to replace the ol’ CH-53 was with another CH-53. See the Corps is buying new-build K models, but delivery in 2015? Oy…
Anyhow, that is one clever approach to cammo on an aircraft.
John, I’ll go you one better than the “minor” damage the Hornets made it back with:
http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/110099.html
And somewhere there is a video of the Eagle landing.
Hat’s off to the Marines! Gotta love that gung ho kinda attitude that puts it right in your face.
Wow, Byron – that’s quite a series of pics. He must have really kept it cooking on approach to get enough lift off one wing and the tunnel. You can call that “over-engineering.”
The G’Omar mid-air was a near head-on IIRC, John. I believe that one of the guys got “called out” pre-merge and commenced a series of aileron rolls all the way to the merge to acknowlege that he’d been shot and was out of the fight. Doing so caused him to lose SA though, and pop out of in on a collision vector with another fighter who, strangely enough, never saw him at all.
Lex, I believe the article said that his approach end speed was 280 knots, he ripped the arresting hook off, but still stopped just short of the end of the runway, and of course, with a brake fire. The aircraft, believe it or not, was returned to service. BTW, the IAF asked GD if an Eagle can fly on one wing, and GD said no way…WAY!