CAMike Posted October 16, 2019 Posted October 16, 2019 On 10/12/2019 at 12:06 AM, HDBRbuilder said: Having been an Air Defense Battalion Tactical Operations officer for a number of years...them folks ain't got me fooled...even with wearing trifocals I can see how they tried to get away with sneaking in an F22 with them F18's!😮 Great pics! Hi HDBR. Man your Trifocals! That's an F-35 in that Section. Actually NAS Lemoore is the West Coasts only F-35 RAG for the Navy. The East Coast has Oceana. The 35's are substantially louder than the Supers so Lemoore was the best fit. Even Whidbey is taking a lot of heat for the increase in noise complaints from the civilians in the area. Mostly because the number of flights has increased and the fact that they're louder than the the EA-6Bs. I was a Surface Warfare Officer via the aviation pipeline due to a change in my depth perception. So like the RAP song goes, I'm On A Mutha F__in' Boat! Great song to play loudly. Below is a great video of Visual Route 1355 near Whidbey, If you have a few minutes to spare its a great example of the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. It's one of the better training routes for maintaining Low Level currency. At night, with no moon it gets a whole lot more fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W48BYDATkI Enjoy! R/ Mike Quote
JL Sargent Posted October 17, 2019 Author Posted October 17, 2019 On 10/15/2019 at 11:42 PM, CAMike said: Do you partake in photography? Yes! This thread is full of photos I have taken over the years. Check them out! I mostly use a Canon 5D MkIII body and I use those same two lenses you mention for a lot of my photos. Mine are probably older versions as I have had them for quite a while. I do like that 400mm L 5.6 lens for daytime baseball. Most of my pictures are sports related. Thanks for sharing your gear setup. Here is one I took the other day. 2 1 Quote
Marvel Posted October 20, 2019 Posted October 20, 2019 Not a good pic, but someone in the family took this around 1965 in the family basement. I do remember I was playing a 1963 Martin D-28. My best friend still has it. 6 Quote
BigStewMan Posted October 21, 2019 Posted October 21, 2019 18 hours ago, Marvel said: Not a good pic, but someone in the family took this around 1965 in the family basement. I do remember I was playing a 1963 Martin D-28. My best friend still has it. that Capo looks like it would survive a nuclear blast. 1 Quote
Marvel Posted October 21, 2019 Posted October 21, 2019 I'm sure wherever it is the rubber bands have long rotted away... 1 Quote
dirtmudd Posted October 29, 2019 Posted October 29, 2019 16 minutes ago, CECAA850 said: @dirtmudd She's growing up! You can say that again.. Gia is with my father and my aunt.... Both in their 80s... 1 Quote
JL Sargent Posted October 29, 2019 Author Posted October 29, 2019 1 hour ago, dirtmudd said: Gia is with my father and my aunt.... I'm with Carl. She is really growing up fast. Here is a shot I got last night at our Jr High basketball game 2 Quote
BigStewMan Posted October 30, 2019 Posted October 30, 2019 @Shiva i miss that life! Spent most of my life a bit north of you in Huntington. 1 Quote
Thaddeus Smith Posted November 1, 2019 Posted November 1, 2019 Halloween 2019. We watch a lot of documentaries/nature shows and the girls wanted to be their own lion pride this year. We don't have much of a neighborhood ourselves, so we pack up and head over to my sister's neighborhood a couple of miles away in town so the girls can get a small taste of "city life." 6 Quote
charlieboy Posted November 1, 2019 Posted November 1, 2019 Some stuff to look at here but I haven't updated it as often as I should http://charleshidalgo.com/ 2 Quote
charlieboy Posted November 1, 2019 Posted November 1, 2019 On 10/9/2019 at 9:04 AM, CAMike said: A few pics below from the NAS Lemoore Sept 2019 Show. A great auditory experience for all ages 30 minutes from my house! 2 Quote
HDBRbuilder Posted November 1, 2019 Posted November 1, 2019 On 10/16/2019 at 12:02 AM, CAMike said: Hi HDBR. Man your Trifocals! That's an F-35 in that Section. Actually NAS Lemoore is the West Coasts only F-35 RAG for the Navy. The East Coast has Oceana. The 35's are substantially louder than the Supers so Lemoore was the best fit. Even Whidbey is taking a lot of heat for the increase in noise complaints from the civilians in the area. Mostly because the number of flights has increased and the fact that they're louder than the the EA-6Bs. I was a Surface Warfare Officer via the aviation pipeline due to a change in my depth perception. So like the RAP song goes, I'm On A Mutha F__in' Boat! Great song to play loudly. Below is a great video of Visual Route 1355 near Whidbey, If you have a few minutes to spare its a great example of the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. It's one of the better training routes for maintaining Low Level currency. At night, with no moon it gets a whole lot more fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W48BYDATkI Enjoy! R/ Mike Well...I totally retired at age 60 in 2013...and my time in the ADA Battalion was in the mid 1990's...the F22 was onboard then, but the F-35 came long after I even retired...at least I spotted that "one of them thar F-18's just didn't look right in that pic"! LOL! I was the Oshkosh fly-in back in the 1990's once...got a chance to poke along in a Ford Tri-motor at that one...interesting flight...wicker chairs and all! I also got to make a parachute jump while in the JRTC OPFOR outta one of the AN-2 Colt's....That was kinda interesting....the old biplane turned into the breeze...throttled back a bit ...and was actually ever sol slowly drifting backwards over the "postage stamp" DZ when we all jumped….all SIX of us...LOL! That was the max load for jumping...with the last man out actually stuffed between the pilot and co9-pilot seats in the cockpit area until everybody got around to exiting the aircraft! This is the AN-2 Colt like we used in the JRTC OPFOR back in the early 1990's at FT Chaffee. on occasion for tight low-level para-insertions: 2 Quote
JL Sargent Posted November 4, 2019 Author Posted November 4, 2019 This one made the front page of our local sports section. 4 Quote
oldtimer Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 Paid for or just credited for team spirit? Quote
JL Sargent Posted November 5, 2019 Author Posted November 5, 2019 5 hours ago, oldtimer said: credited They (the paper) give us credit for the photos anytime they use them. We take these to support our small school (2A) which got hardly any exposure at all before. 3 Quote
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