Posted on 01/07/2008 11:20:19 AM PST by maquiladora
I may be off on the exact percentage but I recall spending about half my time at sea and in port working on safety, damage control, rescue etc. It was not my rating but I did get assigned to the fire party for about a year. We trained and trained and trained on these very things. If you study WWII Naval action, the one thing we got from the Japs kamikaze attacks were amazing lessons on how to save ship and crew NO MATTER WHAT. Even pretty early in the war ‘down pilot rescue’ was an art that we perfected.
I don’t know if this was specific to my ship but these sort of items were drummed into our young skulls constantly.
Thanks for the correction; I have a son in the F/A-18C FRS and I made the assumption that the single seater was a “C” model and not an “E” model.
What would the purpose be of releasing the information “anonymously” then?
CVA-60 USS Saratoga.
AMEN! Thank God for our Navy and for all of our service men and women. Thank God for their families who are left at home while they go on their tour of duty. May God Bless and protect every single one of them, and may He comfort those who have lost loved ones in the war.!
Thank you for serving to protect America! I really do appreciate it. :o)
Things are heating up. Iran is asking for it. Let’s give it to ‘em.
Thank God they are all safe. Prayers for our Heroes.
Does the Navy still use KA-6 tankers?
Hard to imagine that they both experienced mechanical failure at the exact same time.
I’d imagine not. No more Intruders (A-6) and the EA-6 has been phased out and I doubt there ever was a KEA-6 (EKA-6?) variant anyway.
So that he could put out the important information that the pilots are alive and have been returned to the ship without being obligated to release any further details.
There certainly was a KA-6D variant, but Wiki says they have been retired, leaving only the S-3B Vikings and E/F-18E-F SuperHornets, both with buddy packs, as carrier based tankers.
DoD News Briefing with Vice Adm. Cosgriff at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va. (DOD Defenselink)
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4116
“Before I talk about the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz, I should report that earlier this evening local time in the Gulf we had a mid-air collision from two — between two F-18 Super Hornets operating off the Harry S. Truman in the northern Arabian Gulf. Three aviators total were involved. The two aircraft were lost. The three aviators had been safely recovered aboard USS Harry S. Truman in good condition and are being checked out medically. So I want to give you that update that occurred. We’ll get the — the PAOs will get you the details on — as they’re available on squadrons and that sort of thing.?
“What we like to hear, is always the truth?”
Not always.
But we usually ‘know’ when it’s not. What is important is whether one acknowledges the truth, even if one likes the lie.
Could have been 1.5 pilots per plane. That would explain what has happened to all the half children from people having 1.5 kids.
The Lame Stream Media and all the assorted moonbats are already proclaiming: GULF OF TONKIN!!!!!! GULF OF TONKIN!!!!!!./Just Asking - seoul62........
Super Hornets come in both single - E and dual seat - F models.
SOP
You might want to tell VAQ-130, currently embarked aboard the Truman, that the aircraft they are currently flying and will continue to fly for several more years, along with VMAQ-1, VMAQ-2, VMAQ-3, VMAQ-4, VAQ-129, VAQ-131, VAQ-132, VAQ-134, VAQ-135, VAQ-136, VAQ-137, VAQ-139, VAQ-141 and VAQ-142, "has been phased out".
I have to think they wouldn’t actually take a shot. I don’t think we’d quite put up with that. They want US to take the first shot.
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