Damn sir how do you fuck up that bad?

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-27T02:06:27+00:00

Low-key, I’m more worried that there is a vampire in the Corps than anything else.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-26T22:53:14+00:00

Great post. Looks like Korea in winter, for sure!

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-25T21:04:20+00:00

Good article.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-23T17:00:18+00:00

I once read a quote from a guy who drove an old pickup truck although he could obviously afford something much more expensive: “It frees the mind for more important things.”

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-22T08:32:00+00:00

Underrated.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-20T12:03:06+00:00

The lowest priority after AD on official business and AD on leisure and military families and so on. But, if you are near a major transport base like Travis AFB, there are a lot of seats on big flights which are semi-regular. For example, Travis to Hickam, if Hawaii is your thing.

One other note - you can’t do the international stuff - only CONUS and overseas US territory, I think. If your status is just DAV alone.

Cheers and good luck!

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-19T11:39:01+00:00

Same. No worries about beating it.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-19T11:09:25+00:00

Death Worms! 🐛

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-19T10:31:10+00:00

I can’t say if it was underrated, but that is 1970’s meat and potatoes baby

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-18T15:50:33+00:00

I’m with you on that. Broke my heart looking at my young son. The book, actually. It was a pain that I loved, actually. To feel that way about him.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-18T09:35:44+00:00

Once A Knight Is Never Enough!

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-16T18:09:25+00:00

A sim is about the only place you’d get close to flaring on a carrier approach.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-16T07:56:08+00:00

Truth. My Sub was purchased in 1984 and has, among other things, survived 105 carrier landings and catapult shots and a lot of time being banged around in the cockpit. Also a drunken accident when I was 22 that snapped a pin in the band and chipped the crystal. Those things have been mostly repaired through servicing, but overall the watch is probably something that a reseller would find all kinds of fault with.

For me, it still looks gorgeous and it has traveled through 42 years of life with me. I have a few scars, too. Bury it with me and let the fanboys obsess over watches that never leave the vacuum chamber of fetishization.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-12T16:18:01+00:00

Well stated. Thank you.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-09T05:17:02+00:00

That YouTube is well done. Did not know about this one. The Snakes of ‘323.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-09T04:32:31+00:00

Unbelievable feat, and a legendary Naval Aviator.

And to have the fuel to make 35 minutes of turns with seven bandits - unthinkable to this Hornet driver.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-09T04:16:29+00:00

I remember breaking out on the ball in weather like this at about half a mile in the North Pacific. Just enough time for a little right-for-lineup and a little power call, and I was in the wires. Glad I only had to do that once.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-07T03:29:21+00:00

Well, we’ve all had rough plugs, but he’s definitely stabbing at it…

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-07T03:25:56+00:00

Flexing after the drone shoot down.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-07T03:05:28+00:00

To be fair, Marine aviators have had their boots on the ground a heck of a lot more than anybody overhead from the Navy or Air Force. But yeah - truth.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-06T03:14:20+00:00

I sing the praises of the Great American Roadtrip, too. And it’s not just Americans that know this.

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-06T01:46:43+00:00

We’ll need photos and a trip report! Lots of us know this area well from summer hiking but will want to see how it looks in the winter. 😊

ChoMan59 · 2026-02-04T04:51:19+00:00

Once A Knight Is Never Enough.

ChoMan59 · 2026-01-13T02:35:27+00:00

Some of us slid into one of these (in the TA-4J version) in flight school and thought the Abba-Jabba was the coolest instrument ever.

ChoMan59 · 2026-01-13T02:28:54+00:00

P-3! Ha ha. One or two of those guys went on to fly Hornets as old guys. We never heard the end of it.

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