Only a small part of WHY I am so confident...despite BIDEN and the DEMS.

[icansayit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWudWiUVTgY

[LongTermGuy]

`......The best thing we can do right now is have ships out there ready to go when China decides it's time!`
**Good training exercise ...lets them know were ready...if they want to dance...

*****
"Go Australia...the U.S.... Japan .....and Sth Korea..... next time India .....all will send ships as well as the other nations that are involved!"

[Gunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWudWiUVTgY

Memories. sometimes I'd rather be still there.

[icansayit]

Memories. sometimes I'd rather be still there.

How's that old saying go? You can take the man out of the Marines, but you can't take the Marine out of the man?

Same for us Swabby types...or Squids. The best part of our lives stays back there with our friends.

:salute:

[Gunny]

How's that old saying go? You can take the man out of the Marines, but you can't take the Marine out of the man?

Same for us Swabby types...or Squids. The best part of our lives stays back there with our friends.

:salute:Sitting on the fantail at 0000 hours having a smoke, so many stars in the sky it lights up the whole ocean. Stars and phosphorous, and only the sound of the ocean. You can hear the machinery of the ship, but that's a tune-out.

Playing basketball on the non-skid in the hangar deck :laugh: Jogging around the flight deck BEFORE flight hours 33 times to approximate 3 miles. That was hard on the knees, but you got some fresh air. Nothing like the smell of JP5 in the morning:laugh:

I'd take a turn at ship's platoon to go on one more pump. Hell yeah :)