Doc Kazoo:
I just had to share this experience. The other day I was watching a History Channel Documentary on Aircraft Carriers. During my career I served onboard four different carriers and always love to see one of my old ships in video. Well just a couple minutes into this documentary was a beautiful shot of my squadron's aircraft landing onboard USS America. Needless to say I was very excited. About midway in the documentary popped up a short clip of an ordnance loading crew from my squadron rearming an aircraft. I almost fell out of my chair. It was my load crew and I was in the vid with old shipmates I had forgotton. This vid is from 1972, 40 years ago!! :o Since all the vid was made by Navy Department photographers it's public domain. So I put together a wee video for my personal scrapbook.
Sure wish I had all that hair again ;D I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to have this video.
Glenn:
wow, that was cool!
you must have been overcome by the 'nostalgia' of it all, I bet. 8) Seeing all those ol' buddies an shipmates.
Glad you didn't drop the missile! 8)
... or we'd be 'kazoo-less'... and no one should ever be 'kazoo-less' :P
8)
Doc Kazoo:
It was really odd seeing myself with old shipmates 40 years ago. After that 13 month deployment we got three months stateside then deployed to the eastern Mediterranean for 9 months. Heck in a lot of ways we grew up together. Nope never dropped one myself but seen it happen once.