Found some old Navy Pics!!!
 

Found these while doing some spring cleaning today. The first is one of my squadrons F4s over the USS Coral Sea during the World Cruise in '83. The second is a photo of the Coral Sea hand signed by the Ships Captain. Third is a group photo of the squadron after recieving the "Bula Bula" Award in '85. Fourth is a Soviet Bear TU-142 taken by one of our pilots during Operation Team Spirit.

Last one is my Graduating Class at NATTC Millington. I am the first squid on the left.

Dave

Awesome Dave! Carriers are so over the top, it's cool.

Pete

OMG! our oldest son was in the Navy for four years on the Coral Sea in Scotland. During this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_...of_Sidra_(1986)

Awesome stuff. We should do an old pic thread.


Here is my entry from 75,

Hmmmm... So, he got to have fun with Moammar too? We did the "Line of Death" dance in the Gulf of Sidra in '83. (Your son will know what that means.:)) My squadron left the Coral Sea in Norfolk in September of '83 and transferred to the Constellation (CV64) in '85.

Some of the hardest, but best years of my life, Painter. Wouldn't hesitate to do it all over again, (If I could.)

Dave

Posing with an A4 at Millington, 1982.

He felt the same. You're a nice looking young man. :)

Thanks,

But that was thirty years ago. Remove the hair and add about 80 lbs........:o

Dave

The dungarees bring back memories...they are no longer in service, having been replace by a polyester version around 2000 and those being replaced by the digital blue cammies a few years ago. On board ship the daily work uniform are coveralls. I remember my pair of dungarees on my first cruise they got so dirty and paint splattered...but you could wear them if you were at sea.

You must have been around for the salt and pepper uniform Dave....or was that before you. They were gone by 88

I wore the "Crackerjacks". I left the Navy in '86.
I was an Airdale (AME-2), flight deck troubleshooter duty. So, on the ship I wore fatigue pants and a green jersey.

I like the blue cammies. I see them all of the time around here. I spoke to a young woman at the carwash yeasterday, she was a 1st Class Master at Arms, cleaning the van before returning it. She had just returned from transporting some prisoners. The cammies looked sharp on her. Tall, muscular African-American woman wearing a sidearm. I wouldn't want to be on her bad side.:eek:

Dave

Look at the Bootcamper.........

Good pics Dave.

They're cute when they're young.

Chas

Yeah, then they get fat and hair starts relocating to places it doesn't belong..........:(

Get a haircut and get a real job...ya bum!!!

Chas

That reminds me, I need to get a new bushhog for my nose.

Chas

Your group looks like a happy bunch. Thank you for serving.

A hippy with big bell bottoms. I had the crazy idea that those would hide my big feet. Did you go through a disco phase. I'm a bit younger and missed the height of the disco craze.

I recently had a haircut and while coating my newly sunburned ears, I noticed some errant hairs. Alas, I'll need another trimming device.

The disco craze hit while I was in college. I managed to ignore it. I did listen to some Bob James earlier today, though.

Regards,

D-Ray

I was lost during the disco era, lost. I hated it. Luckily I was working 65 plus hours a week those years.

I had just gotten a hair cut. :p

I had not cut it from 71 to 75.

I was solidly in the "Disco Sucks" camp.