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Based upon my firm belief that Kerry doesn't have an honorable bone in his body, I think there must be another reason why they didn't drag this out.

My best guess is that they didn't want anyone t ...

Speaking of double takes, I drive a Toyota Prius (the hybrid) which makes the tree-huggers swoon when they see it. Then they see the NRA sticker on the left rear and the "Veterans for Bush" sticker o ...

Does his name sound familiar?

Both names sound vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure the memory is from the VP-31 "folder". I was mostly chasing women those days and not paying much attention to anyth ...

I still have VP31 tools in my toolbox.

You made me laugh. I was TAD to the tool room for awhile at VP-31 in '71. The hands typing this probably engraved the "VP-31" on those tools 33 years ago. ...

Amen gocars,

A bit skewed off topic here, but speaking of The Wall, I visited last week before the rally, and about 3/4ths of it is barracaded and covered with plywood for lighting renovations. An ...

Unless members of congress are an exception, the civilian version of a Top Secret clearance is a "Q" clearance. My understanding is that posession of a TS clearance has no value in being issued a "Q" ...

...but I did get several friends, who are US Capitol Police Officers (off duty on Sunday) to go 'in my place'.

....And you can tell them "Thanks!", and that we were all impressed by the high level ...

I agree that there were about 3000 people there. Here is a panoramic series of pics I took. Sorry about the framing...I was holding the camera over my head.

These are 1.5Mb jpgs, so they'll take ...

I was sent out to the line to replace the PA (public address) amplifier in one of the birds (SH2D Seasprite helo), and to take a couple of new guys with to show how it was done. They were almost as mu ...

Kerry was just hit by a metaphorical truck. It was big, it had a Bulldog hood ornament, and it said ZELL on the grill.

It absolutely astounds me that that the Kerry campaign is forwarding the notion (with some success) that flying F-102s in the Guard somehow constitutes "draft dodging". Quite aside from the fact that ...

I liked Imperial Beach, it was a nice laid-back base. Unlike most of the guys here, the most dangerous things we encountered were: a) Taking baseball swings at the droop-stops on the SH2s with broom h ...

As of this writing (Sat 28 Aug, 20:12 CST), the Holiday-Inn Capitol still has rooms available on the 11th and 12th. It's about $109 for Saturday night and $195 for Sunday night if you sign up on the ...

Thanks, got it. Here's a link if others want it.
http://www.freekerrybook.com

Yup. VP-31 at Moffatt from '70-'72 then off to LAMPS Helos with HSL-31 and 35 at Imperial Beach for the rest of my enlistment.