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Godot51

(239 posts) Sat Sep 16, 2023, 12:59 AM Sep 2023

poems on aircraft carriers

cv-65: the enterprise

rising with the tide
a wrecker’s ball threatening
lower with the tide

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poems on aircraft carriers (Original Post) Godot51 Sep 2023 OP

Vietnam era carrier.. Permanut Sep 2023 #1

Permanut

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1. Vietnam era carrier..

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Sat Sep 16, 2023, 01:31 AM

Sep 2023

Navy vet here, Vietnam era, but grateful I never had to go there.

Spent years on a tin can, USS Sampson, DDG 10, including many days watching F-4 fighter jets take off and land from USS Saratoga, CVA 60. And nights.

Over 50 years later, I still can't believe the skill of those pilots

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