Really busy today. Had lots of fence to work on as we moved cows and calves out of the south googie pasture and back to the home place. I had to string some temporary wire as I'm still in the middle of a little fence renovation.
Also had a couple of calves today.
Before I knew it most of the day was gone.
And I got nothin' when it comes to clever posting ideas.
I read a koobecaf thingy earlier about Nimitz bitd -- circa 2007 or so. Now back in the Real Navy of the Twentieth Century...
Good times wuz had...
Thanks for the post. The calves look good. Don't worry about posting, work/life comes first.
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Thanks Paul. It's really nice to see them get up and scamper about after trying to save little 764.
DeleteSeeing what I have for the weekend, I'll not complain about the length of this post. Sometimes life happens.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does. Today will be fun. Helping to clear a closing department store basement of decades of accumulated accumulation. So fun for certain values of fun...
DeleteI've always wanted to know. In clip #2 at about 4:20, how close did the Tomcat get to the water in that overshoot and pullout? First time I saw the movie, as soon as I saw the nose commit down, I thought "Oh 5417!, this is going to be close"
ReplyDeleteTo the best of my knowledge it was extremely close. I think the driver was Fox Farrell. IIRC they actually accidentally put a T-6 (zero) in the water at one point. Yep, it was Fox (frightening XO!).
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It's a small world, but I know (or know of) him. Not sure where, CINCPAC maybe? But the name is familiar.
DeleteSure could have been. He certainly had a name in the fighter community. Retired as a CDR, which kind of tells you a few things. Phantoms in Vietnam, FG.1/F-4K's off the Ark with the Fleet Air Arm on an exchange tour, Tomcats and squadron XO/CO with VF-84. He passed back in 2014 at age 70.
DeleteRetiring as an O-5, especially in this day and age, is a mark of honor in my book. I'm wondering if it wasn't at Kadena. We had a Tomcat deployment there for DACT, some of them were pretty challenging.
DeleteThat's probably a good bet, if my rough understanding of your career timeline is close.
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