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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
I believe some will find this of interest; the passing of yet another
long-serving "bird". MW http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=28190 NNS070312-14. Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephanie Tigner, Fleet Public Affairs Center Pacific CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 85 held a decommissioning ceremony for the Navy's last H-3 Sea King helicopter March 6. The helicopter departed Naval Air Station North Island en route to Atlanta to be prepped for foreign military sales. .... |
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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
Mike Weeks wrote:
I believe some will find this of interest; the passing of yet another long-serving "bird". MW http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=28190 NNS070312-14. Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephanie Tigner, Fleet Public Affairs Center Pacific CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 85 held a decommissioning ceremony for the Navy's last H-3 Sea King helicopter March 6. The helicopter departed Naval Air Station North Island en route to Atlanta to be prepped for foreign military sales. ... Just another reminder of how old I am:-) I have about 30 minutes total flight time in three H-3 flights...two at NAS NI and one in Pensacola, each during during DWEST en route to duty stations in Okinawa, Hawaii and Spain. I think I have more time bobbing on the water waiting for them to show up than I do actually riding in them. Glad I never needed to wait for one in the real world...and glad they showed up for the training events. |
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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
Great... now every bird and ship I was associated with is either
decommisioned or in a museum. I think I'll have a beer and a nap... MTW wrote in message . .. Mike Weeks wrote: I believe some will find this of interest; the passing of yet another long-serving "bird". MW http://www.news.navy.mil/search/disp...story_id=28190 NNS070312-14. Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephanie Tigner, Fleet Public Affairs Center Pacific CORONADO, Calif. (NNS) -- Sailors from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 85 held a decommissioning ceremony for the Navy's last H-3 Sea King helicopter March 6. The helicopter departed Naval Air Station North Island en route to Atlanta to be prepped for foreign military sales. ... Just another reminder of how old I am:-) I have about 30 minutes total flight time in three H-3 flights...two at NAS NI and one in Pensacola, each during during DWEST en route to duty stations in Okinawa, Hawaii and Spain. I think I have more time bobbing on the water waiting for them to show up than I do actually riding in them. Glad I never needed to wait for one in the real world...and glad they showed up for the training events. |
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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:20:00 -0600, "MTW"
postulated : Great... now every bird and ship I was associated with is either decommisioned or in a museum. I think I'll have a beer and a nap... You aren't alone! (Intrepid, Forrestal, Independence, FJ-3, AD-6, F11F) |
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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:02:38 -0400, Greasy Rider
wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:20:00 -0600, "MTW" postulated : Great... now every bird and ship I was associated with is either decommisioned or in a museum. I think I'll have a beer and a nap... You aren't alone! (Intrepid, Forrestal, Independence, FJ-3, AD-6, F11F) You REALLY know you're old when you meed former flight students of yours who are now senior captains for major airlines! :-) Bill Kambic Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão |
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Navy Says Farewell to Last Sea King
Great... now every bird and ship I was associated with is either decommisioned or in a museum. I think I'll have a beer and a nap...
Ditto. T-1A, T-34B, UC-45J, T-39, T-2A & C, TA-4F, A-6A & B, KA-6D, TC-4C, USS BRAINE (DD-630), USS OKANOGAN (APA-220), USS SYLVANIA (AFS-2), USS LEXINGTON (AVT-16), USS RANGER (CV-61), USS CORAL SEA (CV-43). Most are now razor blades, Zippos, or beer cans. Many A-6 airframes became artificial reefs off Florida. The BRAINE was sold to Argentina and later expended as an Exocet target. There are several A-6 airframe gateguards and museum pieces about the land. Also, there are 148 A-6E airframes at AMARC, some of which - by their bureau numbers - were A-6As that I flew back in the time before time. http://www.amarcexperience.com/AMARC...Area%201&Id=01 -- Mike Kanze "The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it." - Steven Wright "MTW" wrote in message ... Great... now every bird and ship I was associated with is either decommisioned or in a museum. I think I'll have a beer and a nap... MTW |
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