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Aren't they called Paladins? or am i getting them mixed up with something else

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Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting

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@ThiccSpicyGenderRevealParty they are called Palidans

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The USS Coral Sea CV 43, my first ship.

Looks like parking was tight, @Out of Control. LOL

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@BobiusPrime During flight ops most of the planes were below decks in the hanger bays. The planes you see here were probably topside for the photo op. They kept them in the hanger bay for two reasons, the protect them from salty sea spray; which is corrosive, and to keep a ready flight deck.
There's a lot of planning on how to do this.

so all those planes could be stored inside at once? @Out of Control

@BobiusPrime Yepper-doodles. We went through a very bad storm in the Mediterranean and the planes andBobiusPrime#4818 equipment were all safely stored inside with all the hangerbay doors shut.
Unfortunately I was on forward look out for eight hours because most of the ship's crew were vomiting.
I got three hours sleep, some dry clothes and stood watch for another eight hours.
Most of the crew were falling out of their racks.
I was one of the few eating on the mess decks.

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sounds like a helluva a ride

Those were eight hour weather decks watches. The rest of the watches were inside. I was twelve on four off for two days.

@Mauler I was in the army guard six years before that.
The 25 mile forced March over night I did with my 25 pound pack, another soldiers' pack, and him on my side so he could finish basic. I had worked out before basic. The colonel saw me and asked what I was going to be doing after basic. I told him a medic in the reserves.
He told me to look him up, he wanted me active in his people.

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My dad did nine years in army

@Mauler It was right before the fourth of July weekend 1981. They gave everyone the weekend off. I was in the hospital with a 104° fever.

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@Out of Control, you must be one of the rare individuals here older than me

I think I had just finished 6th grade

@BobiusPrime Keep this in mind. It's only you that knows your limits, and you can always do more than that.

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I'm 66. In 1984 I attempted to do ocs. I had bad allergies and had to quit. I was doing things the other candidates were jealous of.

dang

I wanna enlist but I have some allergies

Nobody wanted to do a hand over hand down a high wire. I did and really pissed off a bunch of primadonnas.

@Cheesebuger2143 I was on the service 1980-94. O got my allergies under control from the VA on '94 when I nearly died from pneumonia.

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Thank you for serving

It was all my pleasure. @Cheesebuger2143 plus the pay.

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Remember, people like me go off to war and a few never make it back. We don't do it because we are made to. We have to, and we want to. That's America.