This is truely a sad day for the Corps. I had the honor of meeting Mike while attending MAWTS-1 WTI course in 1998. He was a guest speaker to the whol...
I have not yet hit a tree or large under growth, But recently in Iraq we had a large landing air pannel, (the large orage things that Identify friendl...
I have pictures a video of the mini-gun in action in Iraq. The pictures are from the UH-1N Brian
Hey now, We still use brasso, just not all the time. Liquid starch, that is on the way out, but I still use it on most of my uniforms. The new C...
I don't think it was luck, but more or less a matter of time, before this happened. I flew for 21 days in OIF in Hueys woundering more or less waiti...
Okay just woundering, Wanted to know if it was my Current squadron thats all, I know the sqaudron where VMO-? durring Vietnam then they went to HML or...
That's true Tom, pilots do make them fly, Well sometimes sometimes its really interesting to see nuget pilots hover, I said see them I hate beeing in ...
True the only real test is to use the airframe in combat, Having been over in Iraq I not sure it could have done everything the 46 did. It probably wo...
Along with the Three A's is an accurate door gunner. 😀
You have to remember that this A/C was designed durring the cold war era. When they thought they would have to go deep into somewhere when beach landi...
The 200 ile thing was came up with so that the Marines can deploy from over the horizon. Which means you don't see the foot print on the ships bring M...
This is all we really need Im not one sided or nothing but Just glad to be part of the rocket and gun club
True, they are trying to do too much, Plus it doesn't help that almost 8 years ago someone tryed to kill the project that didn't help any. Y...
Rumor mill here: The V-22 is only being purchased by the Marine corps and the Air Force. The V-22 for the Corps, and the CV-22 for the Air Force s...
The vortex ring state is the biggest consurn ring now up and down the ranks with the V-22. It is the causal factor in the AZ crash it is the reason th...
Agree and Disagree Now barring that I am still in the Marine Corps and should not talk bad about the V-22: The coment made about it being able to...