Vikings' funeral (EXCERPT) Two S-3B jet squadrons being retired at North Island Naval Air Station, by James W. Crawley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 16, 2004 For the first time in 54 years, the status board in the VS-38 squadron

Kerry had a total of four months experience commanding a patrol boat as part of the brown water navy in Vietnam thirty years ago. Bush has over two and a half years (and counting) experience commanding the most lethal military force ever seen in the history of man! So who actually has the most...

Selling some of my naval books. If interested in any of the following then email me at IJN (WWII): ---------------------- US Navy and Marine Corps Fighters, William Green and Gordon Swanborough Japanese Army Fighters, William Green and Gordon Swanborough I-Boat Captain, Zenji...

Hi all, Our website has been updated again with an article about ferrying Dutch and Danish F-16s to Cold Lake. Viewing KDC-10 operations via Goose Bay, Cold Lake, Ottawa and Goose Bay again with lots of (air-to-air) pictures at www.afterburner.nl/mapleflag02.htm Best regards, Fred and Maurice.

Does anyone have a sujestion as to what would be a good replacment for Aussie aging F111? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.639 / Virus Database: 408 - Release Date: 22/03/2004

Judge halts work on Navy landing field in eastern N.C. (EXCERPT), by Estes Thompson ASSOCIATED PRESS 2:55 p.m. April 20, 2004 RALEIGH, N.C. – A federal judge Tuesday ordered the Navy to stop work on a jet landing field planned in eastern North Carolina, saying the facility could harm birds at a...

First air show at NMM in a number of years with (of course) the Blues as the main attraction. Schedule doesn't permit attendence on Sat/Sun but I managed to take my granddaughters to the practice show Friday ... the three year old LOVES airplanes. Blues showed up with 5 jets, dash 3 was Med down...

Reading 'Over the Beach', Questions- -How many pilots did they deploy with? They had a det in Cubi and 10 jets... -Seems like a pretty unhappy group. Dept heads that were either labeled as effeminate or cowards, JOs that got short and yelled at the CO, a JO that turned his wings in cuz he didn't...

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=2371 April 23, 2004 Going Back Where They Came From by Patrick J. Buchanan "If we have to make common cause with the more hawkish liberals and fight the conservatives, that is fine with me," William Kristol has told the New York Times.

A WAR FOR ISRAEL?: http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=14695 Bush threatens to attack Iran to protect Israel: http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=14691 JINSA/PNAC Neocons Ready to Expand Iraq War to Syria/Iran:

What total bull shift

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:48:03 GMT, "Charles Gilbert" wrote: CHARLES J. GILBERT * Career Objective: To obtain a challenging position in telecommunications maintenance or maintenance management. * snip

YASIG-AEROPOXY site was updated with new books, kits and CD Roms. Polikarpov PO-2 Flight/Service & Maintenance Manual published by:Zavod No 23 , 1937. 264 pages Complete service,maintenance and repair manual with some 200 extreme detailed drawings. printed(A5 format) or CD Rom version Sample scans...

Quite a few on this group may already know about this, but, for those who don't, back issues of Naval Aviation News can be downloaded (.pdf files) via the following link. For those of you still laboring under a dial up connection like me use caution as the files are large and will take time to down...

I am about to start modeling a Curtiss SBC-4. If anyone can help me, I need photos and details of both color schemes that were used and details. Thanks.

Just another book , Thank,s , You Leftist Idiots .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/28/navy28.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/28/ixhome.html A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "With the demise of the Sea Harrier, the Royal Navy will be left with a capability gap. But we believe that that is an acceptable...

Has anybody been insane enough to rig a LAPES load with a hook so it can catch an arresting wire on a carrier from a low flying C-130? -HJC

Top-Ten Capt. Jerry "Pagan" Temple Capt. Walter "Numb" Scull Lt. Shane "Wasted" Tallant Lt. Pete "Rebel" Yelle LCdr. Dan "Undra" Cheever LCdr. Tom "Goat" Huerter Lt. Bill "The Worm" Selk Lt. Mark "Mutha" Hubbard

27 Apr 2004 - Today’s Military, Veteran, War and National Security News You can also receive this resource listing that is published daily via email by The American War Library (www.amervets.com). Go here for more info: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/war-correspondents/ Bailey's story part of...