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Gold Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 9239 Registered: Jan-06 | some real nice aerial pics of the team... http://www.bentbay.dk/blue_angels.htm |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveA pic is worth 1000 posts!! Post Number: 6108 Registered: Jun-06 | I read about the pilot who died. Sad stuff. I've been watching them for years. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blueangels.crash/index.html?eref=rss_topstories |
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Gold Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 9245 Registered: Jan-06 | That pilot is from my old neck of the woods, where my grown sons still live...Western Mass...small town Pittsfield and the Berkshires (mountains)to be exact is where the pilot called home, and folks lived......Every summer I go to my Northern homes at the Cape, Martha's Vineyard, and the Berkshires... I've seen the Angels many times, along with the Italian, German teams , along with the Canadian snowbirds..and I was assigned (Logistics officer) to Nellis AFB Nev and the Thunderbirds for 4 years....I've worked hundreds of air shows... Italians are azzholes..Snowbirds are most personable and friendly..Angels and Tbirds are the best! |
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Gold Member Username: The_image_dynamicSan Diego Post Number: 1043 Registered: Dec-06 | Wow I didn't hear about that. I think #6 is the one that breaks away and flies really low right over my house every year. We go outside and watch them fly over every single year, sometimes twice a year. Sad stuff... |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6Post Number: 13901 Registered: Dec-03 | So LK, you a log dog, huh? |
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Gold Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 9257 Registered: Jan-06 | were U too once?..yeah I was back then...every day and show was a new adventure...our requirements were constant but working with host sites and bases was always a new experience, and interesting...met alot of good people....after that "special asignment",I moved on to new places and positions..and retired in 99...now a parrothead in Florida with Massachusetts roots....life is good! |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6Post Number: 13904 Registered: Dec-03 | Nope, I'm not a log dog, but I have a lot of friends in that AFSC, they're the ones who provide us with anything we need, can't help but be tight with them...but I'm still AD. |
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Gold Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 9260 Registered: Jan-06 | where at?... I did 30 years, retired LC..and been to most every base in US and many elsewhere..and whats your AFSC?..or job position and rank...I started as a recon photog in Nam in 70, then flight loadmaster E5, then went back to school and finished, then got commissioned,,flew A10's, C123's, C130's, C5's...was SPTG/CC and OG/CC at base levels, and last position was AW/CCV...I still have many friends active who are wing commanders and BG's...best kind are prior enlisted who understand what and who really makes it all work.. my 28 yr old son is in AF...E7 (Msgt) in Weapons on A10's...we're both slugs and like to party, but work hard too, when needed... |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6Post Number: 13907 Registered: Dec-03 | That's nice LK. |
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Gold Member Username: RedlinerWilmington, Ma Post Number: 3751 Registered: Jun-05 | hey lk what town where you from in MA im from wilmington if u know where that is its like town over from lowell |
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Gold Member Username: AdddisorderWest palm, Florida Post Number: 4183 Registered: Jan-06 | iv seen them a few times, neat stuff. actually i think they are going to be at the air and see show this weekend so i might see them |
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Gold Member Username: LklivesPost Number: 9263 Registered: Jan-06 | I would think that their airshows are now cancelled.. |
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Gold Member Username: AdddisorderWest palm, Florida Post Number: 4200 Registered: Jan-06 | good point, i didnt notice the date on that article |