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The Year in Pictures, Navy-style

By lex, on February 19th, 2009

Groovy.

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February 19th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Navy

18 comments to The Year in Pictures, Navy-style

  • babs
    February 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    And my son will be home next Saturday! The last I heard they are driving hard through rough seas, heading west…
    I will be on the pier to welcome his boat. This photo montage just makes the tears flow…

  • babs
    February 19, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    Any long time Lex readers will recall the picture of me with my baby boy. He used to comment here as “Ens. Tim”
    He is now a Lt. and on his way home!

  • Idaho Joe
    February 19, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    I definitely do remember Ens. Tim. Babs, When you see him, give him a big greeting and thank you from all of us.

    It is such a privilege to live in a country that possesses such a great institution as the U.S. Navy.

    Seven days, 20 Hours, 18 minutes until Pass-In-Review at Great Lakes for my version of “The Cat.” But who’s counting?

  • babs
    February 19, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    Maybe we should share the tissue box?

  • virgil xenophon
    February 19, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    “Groovy?”

    That’s from MY generation, Lex–you’re picking up bad habits.

    On a more serious note, such patriotic themes as have moved babs to tears are sadly all too lacking in this era. I grew up on the TV shows “Victory at Sea,” “Navy Log,” the series about submarines made from Cmdr (Ltr Capt) Edward L. Beach’s book “Run Silent, Run Deep” (they made a movie of the same name with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster in ’58, but somehow Wiki omits the TV series) Beach was a Navy Cross winner, btw.
    Also, there was an early (very) Sunday morn weekly program about Army doings whose name escapes me right now but I can still hear the deep voice of the narrator in my mind. And of course there were were all the movies: “Strategic Air Command” w. Jimmy Stewart, “The Bridges at To-Ko-Ri” and a million other WWII and Korean War era flics the likes of which are “Gone With the Wind” these days with but a few notable exceptions. (sigh)

  • Idaho Joe
    February 19, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Yeah, I’m going to be a wreck. This day was about seven years in the making and I couldn’t be more proud.

    Simply stated, the girl’s my heart. And Momma and little brother are pretty proud too.

    In a couple of weeks I’ll post over at the Flight Deck. Can’t wait until those magic words; Liberty Call! Liberty Call!

  • AW1 Tim
    February 19, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Joe,

    I know the feeling. It’s one thing to go through all of that yourself. When it’s your kid doing it, however, it’s a whole other ball game. :)

    My son graduated last month from airborne school and is back with his parent unit.

    I understand completely why my own father drank…….

  • hajo-hi
    February 19, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Hi, what is shown at 5:56?

  • lex
    February 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    An amphibious helicopter assault ship in a fog bank, I should think.

  • Jay Season
    February 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Wow, great. I got tears in my eyes, a couple of times – and I’m an old ‘doggie’ (soldier).

    I’m proud and thankful for those who serve in our Navy.

  • HomefrontSix
    February 19, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Gave me chicken skin. Very cool!

  • 11B40
    February 19, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    Greetings:

    Interesting that there were pictures of Muslims praying but none of Christians. I wonder what could have been behind that.

  • Byron Audler
    February 19, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    That’s some of the best photography I’ve ever seen, I had the chicken skin myself. Was a bit of fluff in my eye once or twice as well, especially when I saw that sailor getting capped, who I believe died shortly thereafter.

    And this old fart will see your “groovy” and raise you: “Far out!”

  • Todd
    February 19, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks for sharing the vid, Lex. It ranks way up there with the amazing USMC commercial from last year.

  • RPL
    February 20, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Thank you, and G-d Bless.

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