HSL on deployment

Slightly offtopic... but close to what you mentioned, Gordon, in the
small Carrier Strike Groups (insetad of larger CVBGs of 1980s), there
must be even more probable SH-60Bs from "smallboys" are detached to the
carrier.

Some Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are gone for foreign navies
(e.g. two of them we have in Poland), Spruance-class destroyers without
AEGIS might be regarded too old to protect the carriers, many Arleigh
Burke-class ships have no helo hangar, and CVWs are smaller than in the
good old days. So there is a need for helos, and not much place for
landing, except the Boat...

I guess it must be much more convenient now to detach some LAMPS helos
to the carrier for maintenance and safety reasons?...

Best regards,
Jacek

Yeah, but the food on a bird farm is never as good - Eisenhower chow
was dreadful, Midway bland - but on a Tin Can, we always had good
food..

v/r Gordon

In article .com,
"Gordon" wrote:

Yeah, but the food on a bird farm is never as good - Eisenhower chow
was dreadful, Midway bland - but on a Tin Can, we always had good
food..


It may not be as good, but you can get it nearly 24 hours a day. Nothing
like going to the forward galley at 0'dark thirty and loading up your
flight suit leg pockets with a couple of sliders which have been under a
heat lamp for a few hours. ; )


--Mike

Gordon wrote:
Yeah, but the food on a bird farm is never as good - Eisenhower chow
was dreadful, Midway bland - but on a Tin Can, we always had good
food..

v/r Gordon

As far as I remember, once upon a time when Ike and America served as
"floating airfields" for US Army helicopters deployed to SoLant, the
bottom line about the Army people stationed on the carriers was "the
Navy chow is good!"

Just imagine how bad must be the Army food

Best regards,
Jacek

On 18 Apr 2006 08:29:11 -0700, wrote:

Gordon wrote:
Yeah, but the food on a bird farm is never as good - Eisenhower chow
was dreadful, Midway bland - but on a Tin Can, we always had good
food..

v/r Gordon

As far as I remember, once upon a time when Ike and America served as
"floating airfields" for US Army helicopters deployed to SoLant, the
bottom line about the Army people stationed on the carriers was "the
Navy chow is good!"

Just imagine how bad must be the Army food

My Air Force tech school at Goodfellow Air Base ("Goodbuddy Air Patch")
was mixed service for a good portion, and we shared classes and
instructors with Army personnel. They were universal in their praise of
Air Force chow.

On another note, there was a guy at my last duty station who had done a
couple of deployments on OBIS (USS OBSERVATION ISLAND). He claimed that
for the first few weeks out the chow was better than anything he'd had
on an Air Force base, or on any military base for that matter. Once
things were no longer so fresh the quality dropped to average. I'm
betting, though, that 13 years after I last talked with him he's still
praising the ox-tail stew he was served and feel in love with on OBIS.

--

-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail dot fm

Hefe, I thought that place was known as "Fort Goodfellow" due to its
Army heritage..?

yf G

On 20 Apr 2006 20:26:03 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Hefe, I thought that place was known as "Fort Goodfellow" due to its
Army heritage..?

Nope, that was just a joke name put on shirts by Army personnel assigned
to the base just to tweak us Zoomies. Seriously.

It started out as the San Angelo Air Corps Basic Flying Training School
in 1940, redesignated as Goodfellow Field in 1941. After the
establishment of the US Air Force in 1947 it was redesignated Goodfellow
Air Force Base in 1948. It was a nice place to be stationed for awhile
back in 1984.

http://www.goodfellow.af.mil/Training_Wing/History/ho/docs/chrongdf.htm

--

-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail dot fm

That's what I get for listening to my sister - a Zoomie linguist
Officer! )

BTW, you were there at the same time she was.

G