President Bush on the USS Lincoln Pictures

US Navy Newsstand ^ | May 1, 2003 | US Navy

[RJL]

I hope I don’t run afoul of the mediators, but Freeper “Excuse My Bellicosity” posted a link to The Navy Newsstand website on a different subject. I followed it and got to poking around, and it’s a great site.

I wanted to let Freepers know about it, I hope it deserves it’s own thread.

I found homecoming pictures of our troops and of President Bush from the USS Lincoln yesterday. They're all great pictures and come in small, larger, and huge "download" size.

There are several different galleries, I found the Homecoming and Presidential pictures at:

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_photos.asp

The Presidential pictures aren’t all grouped together, so be sure you go through several pages of the gallery to find them all.

Enjoy!

[rs79bm]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904041/posts

[backhoe]

-The Presidential pictures aren’t all grouped together, so be sure you go through several pages of the gallery to find them all--

[Blzbba]

Question: I watch his press conference last nite and wondered who the military guys were in the multi-colored shirts? Anyone know? They stood out like sore thumbs against the rest of the same-dressed military.

Nice landing, Mr. Pres!

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

President of the United States Photo Gallery

http://www.news.navy.mil/view_gallery.asp?category_id=7

[RJL]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/904041/posts

Thanks, I have seen and saved these pictures.

The pictures at the site I posted about are different and better(?) pictures, and in the "download" size, they are about 10 times larger.

[Grut]

How the heck did an ANG F-106 jock get 2000 hours total time to qualify for Senior Pilot wings?

[Alberta's Child]

I think the different colors are used to identify different groups of crew members on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

[RJL]

Question: I watch his press conference last nite and wondered who the military guys were in the multi-colored shirts? Anyone know? They stood out like sore thumbs against the rest of the same-dressed military.

Any "Old Salts" step in and help here.

On the flight deck each different colored shirt designates a different responsibility or job. The brightly colored shirts prevent accidents by leaving no doubt about who is who when viewed from inside an airplane or from a distance.

I think it was kind of a color guard ceremony for the President yesterday.

[ThinkingMan]

Those are the flight deck and plane crews- each shirt has a different job:

Purple Shirt- Fuel (Ships Company)
Red Shirt- Ordinance (Squadron)
Yellow Shirt- Taxi and move planes (SC)
Green shirt- Plane mechanics (power plant, airframe, avionics etc.) (Squadron)
Brown Shirt- Plane captain/ line crew (chains, chocks, etc.) (Squadron)
White Shirt- QA/LSO (Squadron)

(I was a brown shirt)

[RonF]

QA/LSO?

[AFreeBird]

ON a carrier flight deck, all personell are color coded according to job function.

Red=Weapons
Yellow=Aircraft control (Taxi)
Green=Catapult
Blue=Tiedowns
Purple=Fuel
White=Safety
Silver=Fire/Emergency
Brown=Aircraft Chief

[The South Texan]

Cool very cool. The military love him just like they loved President Reagan, maybe even more. President Reagan would be very proud of President Bush.

[Blzbba]

Thanks to all who answered this for me!!

[1rudeboy]

I hope I don’t run afoul of the mediators . . . .

What would they do? Bring you to a compromise?

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

F-102

[lsee]

Wow, RJL, good find! Great pictures! Galleries of Navy images

[Steven W.]

aren't the Reds also responsible for fire control on the deck, as I recall?

[rs79bm]

Wow, these are some truly outstanding pictures. Thanks for the link!

[AFreeBird]

fire control as in FIRE? No, that's silver.