Posted on 05/05/2003 4:15:08 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
Congratulations Long Cut! Thanks for your service, past and future.
"Can't say as I blame Mrs. Cut for not coming to Maine in FEBRUARY! lol"
Well, I HOPE she does...to meet my returning flight!
When I got back from my last deployment, we were not yet married, but we were engaged. I came bounding down the ladder in flightsuit and gear, she met me halfway across the ramp! I must have spun her around fifteen times. Too bad nobody snapped a picture, though.
Back then, only a few family and friends met returning P-3 crews. Since 9-11, however, it's gotten a LOT better whenever ANY unit comes home.
Hell, my first two deployments, NO ONE met me when i got back. I just grabbed my seabags and checked into the barracks.
How'd you like to see 70-m.p.h. winds and -30 degree temperatures, with NO SUN, for a month or so? BRRRRrrrr...
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Mine Sweepers
 Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Nick Urena, 21, an engineman from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Petty Officer 3rd Class Christina Sebren, 20, a boatswain's mate from Galveston, Texas, are stationed aboard the USS Kingfisher, which is an Osprey Class coastal mine hunter. The "Minesweepers" as they are known, are small ships with a big responsibility. These ships are mine hunter-killers, capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond  Petty Officer 2nd Class Mario Adame, 22, a Navy mineman from Tucson, Ariz., is an instructor at the Mine Warfare Training Center. Adame trains students on the operation and maintenance of the AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System. Adame is shown here demonstrating a repair on an umbilical cable. The remotely operated submersible is used to detect and neutralize mines in waters up to 2,000 feet. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographers Mate Chris Desmond  Chief Petty Officer Kevin Spurling, a Navy mineman, reviews the controls on a sonar consol with Seamen Carrie Reidinger and Loren Hord, both are students at the Mine Warfare Training Center Class "A" school. Students here complete 15 weeks of basic operation and maintenance training on various aspects of mine warfare systems. They also receive additional cross-training in firefighting, deck seamanship, navigation, and small arms due to the small crews embarked aboard the minesweeper fleet of ships. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographers Mate Chris Desmond  Petty Officer 1st Class Jayson Calton, 30, a Navy mineman from Booneville, Miss., prepares to lower an AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System in the training pool at the Mine Warfare Training Center. Students get the experience operating the remotely operated submersible during their course of instruction. The remotely operated submersible is used to detect and neutralize mines in waters up to 2000 feet. U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond  Petty Officer 2nd Class Christine Beal, 24, from Franklin, Maine and her instructor, Petty Officer 2nd Class Mario Adame, both Navy minemen, observe an AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System submerge in the training pool at the Mine Warfare Training Center. Students get experience operating the remotely operated submersible during their course of instruction. Franklin will report aboard the USS Kingfisher after completing this advanced training on the $2 million system. The remotely operated submersible is used to detect and neutralize mines in waters up to 2,000 feet. U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond  Seaman Casey Kilgos, a 20-year-old Navy mineman at Mobile Mine Assembly Unit 15 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, performs maintenance on an MK-74 Versatile Exercise Mine. These devices are used to simulate the physical characteristics of various mine warfare systems and to collect data on vessels that cross over them. U.S. Navy Photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond  Seaman Casey Kilgos, 20, from Fort Bragg, Calif., and Petty Officer 3rd Class Charles Morales, 24, a Navy mineman from El Paso, Texas, perform maintenance on an MK-74 Versatile Exercise Mine at the Mobile Mine Assembly Unit Fifteen aboard Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas. These inert devices are used to simulate the physical characteristics of floating contact mine warfare systems. MOMAU 15 is currently in the process of relocating to Naval Station Ingleside, Texas. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond  Standing before a stock of MK-6 training mines, is Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin Stordahl, 22, a Navy mineman from Cloverdale, Calif., who is stationed at Mobile Mine Assembly Unit 15 aboard Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas. These inert devices are used to simulate the physical characteristics of floating contact mine warfare systems. MOMAU 15 is currently in the process of relocating to Naval Station Ingleside, Texas. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Chris Desmond
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It's a brave new world:
We are flipping off France,
saying Auf Wiedersehen to the Germans,
nyet to Pooty-Poot,
And, "Go ahead, make my day," to Syria.
Samolot typu P3 Orion w locie nad wybrze¿em
Schemat Oriona
Samolot typu P3C Update III w locie nad morzem
Orion w locie ponad chmurami. Widoczne "¿¹d³o" urz¹dzenia MAD
Orion odpali³ "salwê" cieplnych celów pozornych (flar)
Samolot typu P - 3C Update III AIP odpala pocisk AGM - 65 Maverick
Widoczne pod skrzyd³ami i kad³ubem Oriona pociski AGM - 84 Harpoon i otwarty luk bombowy
I go outside in the clear New Mexico night; Orion has the watch. Knowledge is power--ask any surviving Republican Guard.
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