I just got off another carrier, what did I miss in the past week?

jessewvu

Can someone summarize any important posts/events that have popped up here in the past week?

LindeDad

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sanitarium1inmate

LeeG is back with the Copper for the Weekend thread.

stinkinlincoln

RYK is back.
Longrace is happy and frothy.


Dipping is doctoring... (Shameless plug for my thread.)

And, the Mint still sucks at quality control.

LeeG

<< <i>I just got off another carrier..... >>


Welcome back!


Been on a few myself. This was taken during Desert Storm:

JungleFever

Same things, different people. Oh, the 2009 proof lincoln cent error coin is on Ebay for $2500 at the moment.

jsf

hats off to the carrier folk.

My ol' man served on the old Enterprise (CV-6) during the early years of WWII, radioman on a torpedo bomber. Man, did he have some stories. He told one story of an old boy who got shot making his run across some ships anchored in a crater's bay and made it up and over the crater wall, leaving the scene. The crew bailed out OK, but the pilot later said he thought he was going to get killed by all the falling liferafts as the rest of the squadron came up and over the crater too and spotted the wreck.

Then there was the time they were coming back from a mission and his pilot refused to take a third waveoff. He crash landed, all were OK. There wasn't enough fuel left to get a measurement, prior to the court martial. All charges were eventually dropped.