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Another one of my favorite phrases was that "There are only 2 ships in the Navy worth a damn...your LAST one, and your NEXT one."
You always hear Sailors say things like "well, on my LAST ship, we did it this way..." or "It won't be like THIS on my NEXT ship..." The one you are actually serving on...well that one is a 'bucket of *$#(' or some other term of endearment.
YUP! In the USAF version, you substitute "base" for "ship" and everything else in the saying is virtually the same...
Don't know if this clarifies or confuses matters more....... In the Coast Guard, an Airdale refers to anyone with an air rating, from the pilot to the med techs to the mechanic.
it's anyone that started life as an airman recruit/airman apprentice/airman. They're stripes were green to signify airdale. It used to be easy when only airdale chiefs and officers could wear brown shoes, but equality ruined that one.
BTW, the submariner also says there's only two ships, subs and targets..
(side note) Ibginnie----------great to read about your sons.
I was an E-3 Airman (A-6 plane captain) in 1967 at Whidby Island NAS when the A-6's were quite new and was an original member of VA-128 when it got formed.
Glad to see the A-6's still being used some 41 years later. (they were attack bombers back then)
(side note) Ibginnie----------great to read about your sons.
I was an E-3 Airman (A-6 plane captain) in 1967 at Whidby Island NAS when the A-6's were quite new and was an original member of VA-128 when it got formed.
Glad to see the A-6's still being used some 41 years later. (they were attack bombers back then)
I STILL count the A-6/EA-6 as one of my favorite (but bizarre-looking) fighter jets! My last assignment was Mountain Home AFB, ID. We frequently serviced A-6s and EA-6s from Whidbey when they came to eat at Scrubby's BBQ and work on the Saylor Creek Range! A pain to refuel, but I still enjoyed servicing them!
My dad was a yellow shirt on the flight deck during vietnam. Lost sight in one eye because some jerk decided to test the engines without notifying the deck first. In my case my first ship was better than my second ship. My first was the USS Iwo Jima LPH-2. When I first arrived it was hell. It was right after the steam leak that killed 10 engineers in Bahrain in October 1990. After Desert Storm it became very good for the engineers. Went to USS LaSalle AGF-3 and wish I hadn't re-enlisted. It was in the yards and it was horrible. Because it was originally a 2 year tour of duty, the crew were short timing upon arrival. There were bulkheads with nearly a half an inch of paint, there were pipes that were held together by the paint, the EOSS (call it instruction books for the machinery) were wrong in both instructions and diagrams. Someone made the mistake of using a needle gun in the bilge on some pipes and the pipe crumbled to dust. I couldn't wait to get off that thing. The Iwo Jima was haunted but if it wasn't scrapped I'd still go back to visit.
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) fighter jets! My last assignment was Mountain Home AFB, ID. We frequently serviced A-6s and EA-6s from Whidbey when they came to eat at Scrubby's BBQ and work on the Saylor Creek Range! A pain to refuel, but I still enjoyed servicing them!
