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- “These are from a friend’s going away party. Rod got on at Northrop Grumman in Palmdale. Used the GI Bill and a job here at Edwards to get an engineering degree.” Thank you men and women of the 912 AMXS.
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- The Los Angeles-class, USS San Francisco (SSN-711) received the Battle Efficiency “E” for her independent operations in 1988. However, on Jan. 8 of 2005 collided with an undersea mountain off the coast of Guam. At the time of the incident, the sub was operating at max speed in a depth of 500 feet. The entire San Francisco was almost lost but the crew managed to recover and save the sub. 23 crewman were injured and Joseph Ashley of Ohio died from head injuries. Beyond the injured and lost lives, the other tragedy was that 6 crew members and the commanding officer were reprimanded for the incident. The seamount that the San Francisco struck did not appear on the chart in use at the time of the accident, but other charts available for use indicated an area of ‘discolored water’, an indication of the presence of a seamount. The Navy determined that information regarding the mount should have been transferred to the charts in use — particularly given the relatively uncharted nature of the ocean area that was being transited — and that the failure to do so represented a breach of proper procedures. In June 2006 it was announced that San Francisco’s bow section was to be replaced with that of the soon to be retired USS Honolulu. On 10 October 2008, the San Francisco returned to the water after successfully undocking at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The dry-docking project involved cutting more than one million pounds off the forward ballast tanks and sonar sphere of the ex-Honolulu and attaching it to San Francisco. SSN-711 is now home-ported in San Diegeo, CA where it is expected to serve until 2017. To the injured, lost and reprimanded crew men, thank you for silently serving.
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- Thank you Jory Guidry and all those in the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines
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every time i view a new BRIGADE gallery, i always think the same thing, "thank you troops".
Thank you for the sacrifice. I wish you were fighting for a more obvious end and that there was a specific end game in all this crap.
Just a thought for MikeofLA
I understand what you're saying. But who else is going to give the children born in these areas, a chance at building a modern global economy in the future. Not to preach and I hate paying taxes, but either we give them a chance or they'll have no future options but to hate and fight developed countries. Sorry for the ramble, call it a mom thing, but maybe our soldier's action today will impact the future. Point in case, N. Korea as opposed to S. Korea
Ditto Heather. What a well thought out "ramble". Unfortunately, I think MikeofLA is right. Have you read about the British in Afghanistan, or in more recent history, the Russians.? America refused to go to the Moscow Olympics because Russia invaded Afghanistan….?
One would think America would learn. There are lots of countries in the world that do not want to be American, with all your values and ideals. Most of these are good, very good. For Americans.
You cannot conquer peoples minds, you can invade their country, but…. Perhaps in a thousand years, or two, when your history and way of life has aged like theirs, you can stand up and say "our" way is the best way, not yet though.
America has the best military in the world, the best equipped, the "best" weapons, But, like Vietnam, I cannot see how you can "win". You will leave, many will have died, nothing will have been achieved. I see your Korea, and raise Nth. and South. Vietnam. I like Americans generally, their politics, not so much. This is not an anti American diatribe, just my thoughts.
#53 awesome #58 #59 #64 #69 I was looking for fireworks and now I have freaking sand in my eyes
My great grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge, I showed him this website a while back and today he emailed me saying "people tend to look upon the old wars in a jaded view, and I can tell you there was nothing jaded about that fight. I just hope that there still remains an appreciation for what we did back then, and for how many of us lost our lives."
Thank you for posting that picture, it means more than you know.
I was talking to a WW2 veteran about a week ago who was wearing his hat proudly. We were approached by some young guy in his late teens or early 20's and this kid asked the WW2 vet. if he was proud of wearing his WW2 Veteran hat? The older war horse responded,Yes I'm damn proud to wear this hat. The kid said why? That war was a long long time ago. The WW2 veteran replied..have you ever held your best friend in your arms as he bled to death in front of you and was all because some country that wanted to take your country away was the cause of your best friends death? This kid still did not get the idea. So I told this kid that because of guys like him,all of us speak mostly English in America and not German,Japanese because guys like him stopped those countries back then from taking America over. We think he may have understood it then but we were still not sure….sad…
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Thank you for your service. Come home safe.
63 and 64 really represent what this country is all about
#11 and #12
The pilots for these helicopters are lifesavers.
If you've never read the book, "Kill Bin Laden" I highly suggest it. They get their two cents in for valiant effort
#12 is my old unit. Blackcats!