Brig?I did, however spend a LOT of time in buildings with no windows behind 10 foot high fences topped with razor barb and patrolled by Marines with guns...
Brig?I did, however spend a LOT of time in buildings with no windows behind 10 foot high fences topped with razor barb and patrolled by Marines with guns...
I can relate, In 7 years active as an EN I was underway aboard a "ship" exactly once and it was for 6 days from Little Creek to Haiti. I did spend a lot of time "underway" but it was all on boats not ships. It was weird sort of Navy twilight zone being stationed at an Amphibious Construction Battalion, 50/50 Fleet rates/CB's. You were neither part of the fleet nor part of a MU. A bunch of fleet rates with SCWS pins made for a real strange dynamic. If you've never seen a machine gun squad made up of a bunch of A gangers trying to do land nav its pretty comical. Or SeaBees trying to do shipboard firefighting drills .Actually, in 22 years of active duty, I spent a total of 12 days aboard ship.
I did, however spend a LOT of time in buildings with no windows behind 10 foot high fences topped with razor barb and patrolled by Marines with guns...
No, places that "don't officially exist" NIH, NRO, Etc.Brig?
Brig?
No, places that "don't officially exist" NIH, NRO, Etc.
Before I was SeaBee I spent some time in a few of those windowless buildings ran by the alphabet soup acronym gang.I can neither confirm nor deny...
Actually, I probably could. Anything I knew is over 30 years old and probably ancient history by now.
At the Air Force Museum they have a camera out of an RB-36. Sitting beside it was a picture of a building in Fort Worth. You could clearly make out the curtains in the windows. It was taken from a distance of 40 miles. For 50's tech... that's impressive.Before I was SeaBee I spent some time in a few of those windowless buildings ran by the alphabet soup acronym gang.
In the Lobby of the NRO building (not open to the public) there is an original aerial recon photo of the Ruskies nuke emplacements in Cuba that sparked the Bay of Pigs standoff and a U2 nose camera. I always thought it was a very cool piece of history.
At the Air Force Museum they have a camera out of an RB-36. Sitting beside it was a picture of a building in Fort Worth. You could clearly make out the curtains in the windows. It was taken from a distance of 40 miles. For 50's tech... that's impressive.
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...and can see a golf ball at 8 1/2 miles.Good Lord! That plaque says the camera and it’s mounts weigh 6500 lbs! Wow!
That is one BIG OLE CAMERA! Thats really cool. Is that in Colorado?At the Air Force Museum they have a camera out of an RB-36. Sitting beside it was a picture of a building in Fort Worth. You could clearly make out the curtains in the windows. It was taken from a distance of 40 miles. For 50's tech... that's impressive.
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Dayton Ohio. Wanna take a road trip?That is one BIG OLE CAMERA! Thats really cool. Is that in Colorado?
Well I’ve been to the USN museum, USMC museum, and ARMY transportation museum so I might as well.
You have more restraint than most of us.I did manage to refrain from making airplane noises, but it was a struggle...
Yah But did he have to go outside and have a smoke afterwards?I did manage to refrain from making airplane noises, but it was a struggle...
Pretty tight fit huh? Weren't no fat boys flyin' them things.and climbed in and had a seat.
Pretty tight fit huh? Weren't no fat buys flyin' them things.