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Sure it's cool, until you've seen a Tarsier.
I know im treading on the dark side but how about the old vmf 251 Lucifer's messengers patch. An attribute to the pre politically correct squadron names.
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Interesting tidbit pertaining to WW2-era PC'ness: the F7F Tigercat was originally named the Tomcat, but the name was considered too "suggestive" for the times. Go figure.
Some pictures from Haiti
Getting ready to launch on one of my flights. That is me center right.
Our Fearless Aricrew
Our Maintainers Fixing a Tire We Cut
We were supposed to land in this LZ right after this guy:
We Didn't:
We ended up landing at another LZ about a mile a way and had to leave before the same thing happened to us
Getting ready to launch on one of my flights. That is me center right.
Our Fearless Aricrew
Our Maintainers Fixing a Tire We Cut
We were supposed to land in this LZ right after this guy:
We Didn't:
We ended up landing at another LZ about a mile a way and had to leave before the same thing happened to us
"Tarbox?" That's the patch for VF-33 Starfighters (formerly Tarsiers). I went through FRS with Diamondbacks and Tarsiers as they transitioned to Tomcats. Yep, it was one scary patch, and reputed to be of the world's most fearsome flesh-eating monkey. Then, year later we were in St Thomas and someone found a real Tarsier in a cage. Turns out it was world's smallest monkey and it ate bugs. That gave rise to them being called "D__ed Bug-eatin' Monkies" by our salty MMCPO. The XO (Mike Bucchi) changed the patch to a Starfighter design shortly thereafter.
Patch is much more fearsome than the real thing...
Some pictures from Haiti
Getting ready to launch on one of my flights. That is me center right.
Our Fearless Aricrew
Our Maintainers Fixing a Tire We Cut
We were supposed to land in this LZ right after this guy:
We Didn't:
We ended up landing at another LZ about a mile a way and had to leave before the same thing happened to us
Nice shots, thanks for sharing.
+1
A hail mary at cracking the A4's case. VA-115 reunion pic. A4's, you in here? This was the 72-73 group..not sure if you were there then.
Hawaiian Shirt and a cold beer in one hand and a pretty good tan for an old timer... am I getting warmer?
Sooner.....I think you may be a younger Persian version of Mark Harmon from NCIS. That's some good goddamn detective work. Not sure if that's our man...but we'll find out eventually.
The individual in the picture is obviously in control of the conversation and recounting with his hands how he shot down Col. Toon...after he pickled 28 mk-82s on Ho Chi Mihn and General Giap!
@ HeyJoe- Sir, I know that the real thing is far less scary then the patch but it is still a sweet patch! Much cooler then what the squadron went to after IMHO. I thought Tarbox was the squadron's radio callsign...my source (read drunk buddy) must have failed me.
Was he a Starfighter? Their given callsign out of the book of supposedly blessed callsigns was Rootbeer. At some point, they started using "Starfighter". "Tarbox" was the callsign for the Air Wing, as in "99 Tarbox, Delta 10"
That's the kind of time I have when I'm not flying or don't have an on-wing.
If in fact it is him in there somewhere, I may have to keep bumping those pics on this thread in case A4's is hoping they just get pushed aside by new posts. Also, in case they just 'disappear'.
Long shot, but we'll see...
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