Update: Noah's Ark Investigation

Insightmag.com ^ | april-15-2003 | By Timothy W. Maier

[ricpic]

Armenia: The biggest little country in the whole voyald.

[Poohbah]

Ah.

BTW, there is no longer a single monster-sized VMAQ squadron. VMAQ-4 was forced to give up their "Seahawks" logo, too.

[Teetop]

I sold it last week, to my cussin! LOL

When I was in Germany in my capacity in the Air Force, I looked up the satelite photos available for Mt. Ararat & discussed it with my boss. She, A Lt. Col., said it was well within our area of operational scope to order the photos and was ok'd by her. Low & behold, when I tried to order them, the request was denied, saying no photos never existed. Even though the reference document for satelite photos said such photos did exist. I was told to let it be. I have wondered ever since I first heard this story as a 12 year old kid.

[Dog Gone]

It's the giant red spears at the top of the mountain that concern me.

[katana]

Ya know, I usually hold back in situations like this but when you call a fellow freeper an idiot it might be time to let you know that TLT was making a JOKE.

[green team 1999]

thanks for the links.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Don't do that to me, now I have coffee coming out my nose.

[GrandmaPatriot]

I think TomB was also making a joke.

[JennysCool]

Richard C. Hoagland...White telephone please...Richard C. Hoagland...

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Yeah, I know. Q-2 was split, on paper at least, in July of 1992. Det X-Ray became Q-1, Det Yankee became Q-2 and Det Zulu became Q-3. Q-4 used to be a reserve EA-6A squadron in MAG-49 up at Whidbey Island. Talk about doing that was going on in the early 80s. All four are home based at Cherry Point but the scuttlebutt way back when was that one each would be permanently stationed at the Pit, El Toro, Iwakuni and the fourth would be assigned to whichever CVW the squids couldn't support.

[Dr. Frank fan]

What I don't understand is why anyone would still be interested in the anomaly, when everyone knows that the mystery was solved in 1963 by Kim Philby and others during Operation Declare.

The anomaly is the home of a bunch of supernatural beings called "djinns" who predated humanity. Everyone knows that.

[Loyolas Mattman]

Indiana Jones on line #2...

"Top men..."

[StACase]

I was the operations yeoman with VF-33 attached to USS America CVA-66 in 1968. Although that's 6 years earlier than when this sea story supposedly took place I can tell you it's crap. Enlisted men did get "gedunk" rides if they got their "OMYASS" cards, and there may have been one such ride during my attachment to VF-33 but it damn sure was not off the ship. And certainly not in the Middle East.

[katana]

I thought about that but felt the use of the word "idiot" was a bit strong. It's hard to tell when you can't see if they're smiling.

Regarding Noah's Ark, this stuff has always been intriguing but I see less in these photos than in some others of the same area I remember seeing before. The Turks have always been very touchy about letting anyone go near this place, usually with the reason that the area had Kurdish guerrilla activity. The other possibility is that they want nothing found which might confirm a story from the (Jewish and Christian) Bible. If they would relent and allow a real expedition this "mystery" would probably end up being another "Al Capone's Secret Vault".

Hmmmm, maybe we should send Geraldo!

[TomB]

It's hard to tell when you can't see if they're smiling.

I HATE having to explain EVERYTHING to some people.

This is the last line in my post:

Strange indeed. ;-)

(SMILE enlarged, colored red and blinking for empahsis, just in case you missed it again.)

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

MAG-49 should read MAG-42.

[Poohbah]

I was in Iwakuni at the same time the infamous "Det X-Tended" (Det X-Ray's year-long deployment because of Desert Storm) was there.

The Seahawks came aboard in August 1991 to relieve them. They had EA-6Bs by then.

The problem was that when they went to active duty, they had to get rid of their Seahawks football team logo.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

The Seahawks football logo was still on their birds as recently as May of 2001 and the aircrew were all wearing the football logo patch. I took photos of BuSer 158802 with the football logo emblazoned on the "football". These photos are all mid '95 or later.

[Poohbah]

With the reserve MAGs in pieces parts, it's easy to get the attitude that "parts is parts."

The old squadron logo was actually the Seahawks team logo; the new one is a lot less so.

[kaboom]

Red circles in the snow means that you should stop drinking and go see a doctor immediately.