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By lex, on May 2nd, 2008

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May 2nd, 2008 | Tags: | Category: sailors

10 comments to Sailors

  • JimmyT
    May 2, 2008 at 9:30 am

    There is nothing like the site of the Stars and Stripes flying free on the main halyard of a U.S. Navy ship, capital warship or otherwise.

    I remember my very first cruise to the Med on the USS Independence. We had left Norfolk headed east for maybe five or six days. We were flying every day and night so I was quite busy as I worked the roof for VS-31 at the time (AT Troubleshooter). On this day the flight schedule was to start late after a morning UNREP with the USS Truckee. So, I slept in like any good sailor with time on his hands and at the late hour of 0700 went to get my morning cup of Joe and head for the starboard catwalk to enjoy the steaming cup of lifeblood near my aircraft. And there, close enough to almost touch was the Stars and Stripes flying on the Truckee. I can still hear the sounds of the snap links clinking, the snap of the fabric in the wind and the water slipping off the hulls of both ships. I guess because there was nothing happening on the flight deck of the Indy, you could hear everything. I never got over it. I took a picture of that flag, I have it here somewhere in all my Navy junk.

  • Byron Audler
    May 2, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Lex, that’s a hell of a picture. I gotta see if I can find the hi-res version, it’d make great wallpaper.

    Jimmy, my son-in-law is an ADC with VS-32, which is very soon to be disestablished, sad to say.

  • lex
    May 2, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Click on the pic, Byron!

    Now, then: Whooseyadaddy?

  • Kris, in New England
    May 2, 2008 at 11:25 am

    Wow. Absolutely stunning image.

  • Liz
    May 2, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Heh, that’s a really cool effect.

    I hope you didn’t fry your retinas in the process of taking it?

  • Ozwitch
    May 2, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Beautiful image, Lex. The composition is gorgeous!

    I’d love some details if you could provide them i.e. camera/lens, how many exposures you took to get that perfect one etc?

  • Byron Audler
    May 3, 2008 at 12:16 am

    You’re my daddy, Lex….my sea-daddy ;)

  • jdgjtr
    May 3, 2008 at 4:31 am

    One of the pleasures of being the off going watch. I was so proud to go to the bow as a seaman or the stern as a third class for Colors in port. Why would anyone want shore duty?

  • lex
    May 3, 2008 at 6:31 am

    Ozwitch, I should have made it clearer that this wasn’t my work. Like all the photos in this series, I got it off the navy.mil web pages – here’s the link to the pic in that context. I believe you’ll be able to get the exif data off the hi res version.

    A Sailor stationed at Naval Air Station Key West spots a rare rainbow halo in the skies over the air station. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the halo, which typically indicates rain is on the way, is a ring of colored or white light that encircles the sun when seen through a cloud of ice crystals. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Cox (Released)

  • Ozwitch
    May 3, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Oh, foot in mouth for me! Sorry about that.

    Although I am sure that any picture you took would be just as good, eh?

    Thanks for the link.
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