[Tank-FL]

Proud, damn I am PROUD!

[firewalk]

bttt

[deadhead]

Awesome photo!

Go Navy!

[Ford Fairlane]

A sub commander would love to see that - I'm glad the Iraqi's don't have any

Nice pic though

[Tango Whiskey Papa]

"We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible." --Ronald Reagan (1974)

[onedoug]

Nice post. Thanks.

Gator Navy Bump!

[TopQuark]

Salute to the Navy!

[blam]

"This marked the first time that six large deck amphibious ships from the East and West coasts have deployed together in one area of operations."

May be they can come together again off the coast of North Korea. Excellent picture.

[rwgal]

Thanks for the pic Tank. My son is a Sr. Chief aboard the Tarawa and a fellow freeper (bkwells). Hope he gets to bring the Jarheads home soon. We are already making plans to meet them in San Diego.

[Tallguy]

Looks like the Gator-Navy has a monopoly on all the great ship's names. In a way it's too bad that the naming scheme of the big deck carriers was changed.

[theirjustdue]

Thanks, T-FL, an awesome photo!

In 65/66 we operated off the Iwo-Jima, a nearly new LPH (a Helicopter landing ship) now, no doubt scrap and later transfered onto the "old' (very, very old) "Valley Forge". An old, but much honored WWII Aircraft Carrier converted into an LPH. So old, in fact, that, still in service in 1965, it even had a wooden flight deck. The Marine firepower onboard was never-the-less, every bit as effective as today, but to see these six great ships gathered together in one photo is absolutely stunning!

[RaceBannon]

There will be pics later today of the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit in 1980, we were the first Marine Unit in the Arabian Sea ever for the Iranian Crises.

[snippy_about_it]

Tank, along with the link to this thread, bkwells sent this photo of the 'Big Deck Formation' I'm sure he'd like me to post here.