I was stationed at Naval Station Rota with the Spanish Navy, and the aircraft was barely in the air. Spain barely had the money to pay their sailors regularly, so spare parts and fuel seemed to be in short supply..

You’re a special kind of idiot. I’m sure a lovely hike anywhere in the Middle East is no problem for you either? Maybe take in some sights in Damascus maybe?

The Russian sock puppet comments on this one are going to be great.

You know Tyler, you write informative stuff. Too bad the comments always go to shit.

I know where you’re coming from. But never forget, one of the best-looking jet fighters to ever grace the deck of a carrier was also only sporting 1 engine, The Crusader.

It’s not about armoring. It’s about redudancy and damage control.

Under his logic, the U.S. Can annex any territory it has a base in.

That’s proseal. It hold a lot more components of aircraft together than you’d like to know.

Wait...the dude’s a Viper pilot with the callsign “Apollo?”

Badass.

I work on Chinooks for a living so I’m curious as to how they keep their CH-47C fleet flying.

Why does it have to be one team versus the other? Corruption in defense procurement happens on each side of the isle. Sick of this Monday Night Football view of politics, one side is good the other is bad. That is a simplified and self serving view of politics in America and is more destructive tha any broken…

Wow, HUGE star for that write-up, This is exactly how I understand the history as well, and it popped up in a discussion on my personal FB page today as well. Bravo and I agree with you 100%.

"Denmark, Dude"

I worked on those C-9's in the lower part of this picture. Damn fine aircraft.

The 2 Tomcats are an A and a D model. They are part of the static display area they have as part of the Boneyard tour.