I can see the Russians & the Iranians dancing to this!
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I can see the Russians & the Iranians dancing to this!
Sorry.....I suppose to say the Russians only. My mistake!
The Navy seems determined to keep putting all their eggs in fewer and fewer baskets.
I was born at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, while my Dad was stationed at Brunswick.
Hat Tip to Patrol Squadron Ten.
Flyvet, 2192 CS, Loring AFB, ME '86-'90. We were the continental base closest to the USSR via the circle route, nuke-loaded B-52s on alert 24/7.
Left some fond memories up there. The great outdoors.
Very sad time for me...stationed at Brunswick 1976-1984 and again 1989-1990. Nice little base. Closing it was a Bush era decision to punish a blue state. A large segment of Maine is anti-military so maybe moving it somewhere else is fitting
The last military air base in new england? How long ago did Hanscom close?
We’ve closed enough bases. This S has to stop.
I hope the blue dummies in the local community will enjoy the economic “hope and change†that will be coming with the base closing. “Imagine a world without weapons!â€
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End of an era: Aircraft depart Brunswick Naval Air Station as Maine base readies for closing.
>Wrong. Its Naval Air Station Brunswick, you twits.
The P-3 Orions of the VP-26 squadron lumbered down an 8,000-foot runway before heading off to a six-month deployment in Central America. After that, they fly to their new home at Florida's Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
>P-3s do not lumber. With 18,000 HP you do not "lumber." And it's Naval Air Station Jacksonville, you morons.
The P-3 Orions, which went into operation in the 1960s, tracked Soviet submarines in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. More recently, the planes have been used on drug interdiction missions and in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>P-3s went into service tracking not just Soviet subs in the Atlantic but Soviet and Chinese subs in the Pacific, as well as infiltrator arms ships trying to sneak weapons to the Chinese Army and the Cong in Vietnam. Plus watching all world shipping for 40 years. Trust me.
Sad. When I was a little boy I ved in Scarborough right under the approach path to the Portland Jetport, and I’d watch Orions and Delta 727’s roaring over my house every day.