To: NFHale
Semper Fidelis!! From a Vietnam Vet - Marine Phantom Phixer F4-J - VMFA-232 - Red Devils.
4 posted on
05/31/2012 3:19:31 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Here is one all dressed up and on display at the Smithsonian.
5 posted on
05/31/2012 3:23:58 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Phantoms....Winged Whoop-*ass indeed....
One of my favorite birds of prey.
Always kinda partial to the old Vought F4U Corsair too...(WWII Pacific version). MEAN lookin’ bird - just nasty and beautiful.
6 posted on
05/31/2012 3:24:21 PM PDT by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Air Force F-4s didn’t have a kickstand! Thanks for your service....Marines on my wife’s side of the family, a Navy dad and Air Force here and 2 brothers also.
To: Red_Devil 232
Decint shot of one of our old, bedraggled birds. Appropriately,loaded with 750 ponders. No one liked handling those, too heavy to manhandle like 250 and 500 pound stuff into the hooks and swaybraces. Must not have been all that accurate, seems they usually used them for TPG and more higher altitude stuff, not close air support. Anyway, a forty plus year memory.
Last squadron I was with before going to helos.
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