I stood on that deck many a day and night for flight ops. Was there for Frequent Wind. It was terribly depressing, morale was at rock bottom. As they had sent all of the birds to Subic Point NAS, I volunteered to go back and help maintain the birds in case we went back in to save Vietnam.
Of course we did not and that is a stain on us. Then the hippies added the stain of Jimmy Carter on top of that!
Hear you loud and clear. Now we have the Marxist destroying our Military.
Hubby does not talk much about that time period. Just tells the story about the Jolly’s being pushed over board so the small plane could land. He was also off the coast of Cuba when that Crisis went down. His specialty was electronics. He taught A/B school when not on a cruise.
It is one of the reasons I’d like to see Lt. Col Allen West and Ted Cruz be our ticket. With the LT. COl as top, we are in a war time situation and need an experienced terrorist fighter who has gonads to go after them tooth and nail and destroy their cash crop those poppy fields.