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10-04-2009, 01:47 PM
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| Been in this since Jan. 2003   | Fighter Attack Squadrons Ok, let me nerd out on some plane stuff. Who belongs to/enjoys/partakes in different Squadrons. Navy, Marines, Air Force. Let me see what you belong to and what you work on. Post pictures of your crew and equipment. I'd like to see! To start off, this is for Barry VMAQ-1 out of NC. Electronic Warfare. The Banshees.   PROWLER. |
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10-04-2009, 02:36 PM
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| You got me runnin up the walls   | i saw the blue angels once. so beautiful. 
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10-04-2009, 02:52 PM
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| Zilvia Addict   | did you go to the air show out in mo val yesterday???
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10-04-2009, 03:56 PM
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| Zilvia Junkie   | I have worked on the Avionics of all the aircraft in the Marine Corps except the V-22. And the last day for the Miramar airshow is today, it's worth checking out plus the weather is good right now.
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10-04-2009, 04:47 PM
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| Wagonofdoom  | im stuck on heavies. well a mini heavy. I still say the c-130 is the most capable aircraft out there
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10-04-2009, 05:01 PM
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| I got Z powa!!!  | i recently left a helo squadron in virginia so that doesn't qualify, but now i'm heading to a fighter training squadron at miramar, VMFAT-101 will get pics when i get orders
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10-04-2009, 05:03 PM
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some guy came by my house to pick up an exhaust i was selling. he said he was on his way out to mo val for an air show.. so i was just guessing lol
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10-04-2009, 05:04 PM
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| Been in this since Jan. 2003 | ^^^^ Razorblade Cool. Miramar. Was just there yesterday. They seem to mostly run Hornets as opposed to Super Hornets. Why is that? VMFAT-101 SHARPSHOOTERS. sick name. love it. |
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10-04-2009, 05:24 PM
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| Zilvia Junkie | Quote:
BTW Did you get any pics of the Blue Angels?
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10-04-2009, 06:00 PM
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| Been in this since Jan. 2003 | I took a couple of the Blue Angels, but they aren't neat really at all. All I have is a camera phone that isn't the best to shoot with. Let me upload them here we go.   |
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10-04-2009, 07:21 PM
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| Leaky Injector  | Haha, one of my old co-workers was the M.D for the Blue Angels. He brought in the flight leader about 2 years ago and he explained the dialogue they use while in flight to coordinate their performances. It's really quite interesting! PS: No, I'm not in the military.
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10-04-2009, 07:30 PM
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| [JEFE S14]  | I was an AB (Aircraft Boatswain's Mate) first, launching planes off the roof, then an AT (Aircraft Electronics Tech) on the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)... worked in AIR/V2 then in AIMD/IM3 from 2003 to 2005. Launching planes off the deck was cool, kinda. Scary. F14's were BEAST when they lit the burners, you feel your whole guts vibrating... we all missed them when they decom'd them. Hornets and Superhornets both have their place, and they're very small (more planes per carrier) and much cheaper to repair/maintain (that's the real reason they replaced the F14's and A5's). My job on the carrier was to maintain ELINT and Offensive Electronics Warfare equipment for the F-14, F-18 and the EA-6B (Prowler)... pretty cool job as far as they go, it's really strange being in the Gulf though when it's 120* outside, and inside your shop it's 60* (they have to keep it cool for the R/F equipment) - you walk around the ship in cold-weather gear and people look at you like you're nuts. I was around jets so much that I'd be totally fine never having to listen to that noise again in my life. |
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10-04-2009, 08:47 PM
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| Been in this since Jan. 2003 | ^^ Yes. Do tell more please. The Electronic Warfare stuff amazes me. E/A-18 replacing those EA-6s. Cool.   VF-31 Tomcatters. Love it. VFA-31 now, yes. New Weapons Platform, Baby!  |
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10-04-2009, 09:42 PM
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| Zilvia Member  | im the guy that will rescue the fighter pilot when he ejects out over water. (like that will ever happen)....pics from training a while ago..   
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10-04-2009, 10:03 PM
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| BBB   |  I'm part of the 4th fighter wing, we currently have 95 F-15E. Down from 96 after one of our jets got shot down in afghan, killing both of the flight crew recently.    |
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10-04-2009, 10:16 PM
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| Damn! If only I was 5lug!  | About 15 years ago when I lived in Reno, we had a squadron of F-4 Phantom II's called the high rollers. When the Phantom was decommissioned, we got a squad of shitty C-130 Hercules transport ships. When the air over Reno was filled with the sound of wussy turbo probs instead of the panty dropping, ear drum rupturing sound of General Electric J79-GE-17A axial compressor turbojets, I died alittle inside.  Pharewell sweet prince. |
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10-04-2009, 10:49 PM
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| Wagonofdoom | Quote:
awesome real men love torque
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10-05-2009, 06:59 AM
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| SLINKY + ESCULATOR = Fun Times  | JSF is gonna replace the F-16 and A-10s on the AF side...but seriously, nothing can ever replace this SOB...  After seeing the gun on this damn thing in action, nothing can ever replace it. Imagine it diving down on a steep angle dive, fires its gattling gun...thing almost looks like it stops, all you hear is "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp" As far as the F-22, we've had them deployed out here the last 6 months. Basically testing to see how theyll work out away from their home station in Langley. Been playing war games with our on station F-15s and they are utterly destroying our F-15s. 2nd deployment out here and they're getting better. They started off with a 4:1 kill ratio, when they left they were at 20:1. F-15s are still one of the best air superiority fighter in the world and it got dusted badly. Flight of F-15s taken during the Solar Eclipse over us a couple of months ago:  Hey look its Starscream!!!   Training with F-18s from Atsugi...  
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10-05-2009, 10:40 AM
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| VIPremium Member   | ^^^^ that pic of him re-fueling is awesome |
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10-05-2009, 04:18 PM
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| [JEFE S14] | Quote:
As far as the EW equipment I worked on, the most common stuff was chaff dispensers lol, but my 'main job' was to repair all offensive/defensive ECM for the Tomcat and Hornet/Superhornet. The F14s had so much gear that broke though... and everything that came in had to be checked out on this 'test bench' which was literally the oldest piece of equipment on the ship I think. The computer that ran the bench had a 386 chip @ 33MHz running it. OLD. Anyway, every day you do tests on your test bench, then gear gets given to the ships maintenance department from the squadron... if it has to do with ECM or EA-6B offensive shit they call someone from my shop down to pick it up. We sign for it, inspect it, then run it through a series of tests ~ some of these take like 10 mins, some take hours and hours (to run through the entire signal spectrum of a EA-6B ALQ-99 pod). Super sweet part was once you started the test, you weren't expected to do anything besides watch the test bench (in case the test fails), so you kick back and fall asleep. Once the box fails a test, you drag out the schematics and try and visually see what's wrong - sometimes you can actually see a burnt out chip or solder trace, which makes deciding what to replace very easy. Most of the time you can't, and you use your best judgement on which component to order - then you wait a couple days for it to get flown out to the ship, replace it, and test it again. The coolest part for me now is all the work I did on the harnesses between the components (the wires and connectors were the only thing were were qualified to actually work on) gave me a lot of experience that has helped me launch a legit wiring operation with cars. So in that sense, Go Navy. | |
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10-05-2009, 05:47 PM
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| Been in this since Jan. 2003 | I decided recently that Figting 31 is my favorite squadron. I love all the art. I think I'm going to colect some of the patches and whatnot once I get a job again.    |
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10-05-2009, 06:56 PM
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| [JEFE S14] | VF(A)-31 goes back a looooooong way - lots of history. Very prestigious squadron to be a part of ~ |
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