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Navy boots on Christmas day

Dec 27, 2014 8:39PM PST

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Nice to see those guys having a good time.
Dec 28, 2014 3:30AM PST

You should've done a selfie though. Need something to keep the grandkids away from the fireplace.
Dafydd.

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low quality
Dec 28, 2014 9:35AM PST

I wonder if you're trying to flame Samsung deviously because the quality of the video is terrible.

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ROFL
Dec 28, 2014 10:48AM PST

Man,get real !
Samsung doesn't need me to do that. They do it all by themselves.
Just look in the Samsung forum .

Sometimes a post is really just folks sharing a moment and nothing more.
Digger

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I wonder what happened to them
Dec 29, 2014 4:27AM PST

Some of the best VCR's I ever had were by Samsung, lasted longer than others. Now it seems there's a quality control problem.

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Off topic.
Dec 29, 2014 4:54AM PST

I've come to the conclusion that phones are two year designs and most consumer electronics are five year designs. Quality is meted out to barely hit that design life span.
Bob

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I still use a motorola c-130 for my cell
Dec 29, 2014 7:43AM PST

nobody wants to steal it, lol.

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Still want to pull out a DynaTac.
Dec 29, 2014 8:13AM PST
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One reason I watch the retro tv shows
Dec 30, 2014 2:27AM PST

It's like taking a walk into the well known past, and those phones often show up in them too. I especially like the cars brand new from the 50 through 70's, best are the car chase scenes, you get to see a lot of them. I always laugh at the Vegas, Pintos, Pacer, Gremlin, and a few others. You think "hey, I wonder if he realized he bought a piece of crap car"? The bar scenes with the old pinballs, and the cigarette vending machines. That was always a satisfying feeling at the time, pulling that knob and having a fresh pack of Winstons drop down, or Kents if nothing else. The flares and the hairs, LOL. Of course the "Afro" force field, where one had to pass just far enough away in a hall to not get a face full of it. Just yesterday spotted a beta-max on Remington Steele. Emergency and Chips are good ones for car spotting.

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Just bought a DVD with
Dec 30, 2014 10:42AM PST

the first four episodes of the Lone Ranger. The actor playing the young rancher in 4 was DeForest Kelley.
Had some vintage commercials, too.
Bad Guy and killer of John Reid, Butch Cavendish, was played by Glenn Strange, whom all will remember from...

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It's just not a
Dec 30, 2014 2:02AM PST

well lit in the bar area. We use the pool table light there

Digger

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(NT) On SE??? Never!!!
Dec 30, 2014 10:39AM PST
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(NT) Looks like fun.
Dec 28, 2014 10:43AM PST
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Loads of fun
Dec 28, 2014 11:11AM PST

Sad to say that this may have been our last year of hosting them as the base is becoming a school and won't be doing the Adopt a Sailor program anymore.
We've been doing this a few years now and really have fun doing it. You'd be surprise at how many of those recruits get older and remember the year they were at our party and came back to see us and volunteer to be with the new kids.
Digger

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(NT) Maybe the school would let this happen once a year.
Dec 28, 2014 11:50PM PST
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Naval Station at Great Lakes
Dec 28, 2014 6:30PM PST

My dad entered there in the mid 40s as part of the V-12 program. This was a college training program designed to fill the need for certain commissioned officers. My dad was in medical school at the time so would become a medical officer. The program assisted both the Navy and colleges which were suffering enrollment declines due to so many young men going to war. After boot camp he went to Duke University for med school. He's nearing 90 now and you don't want to get him started on his Navy stories unless you've time to burn. The one he tells of his time in North Carolina is that he wanted to get to the beach. He says he asked for a weekend pass so he could see the ocean. He thought that, since he was in the Navy, he should at least get to see it. He says his pass was denied and that his commander dismissed him as a smart aleck.

It's actually his Navy life that landed our family in Columbus, Ohio. So why would the Navy be so far from the sea? Well...The airport here was once "Port Columbus Naval Air Station". During the war, Curtis-Wright aircraft was producing here and I believe both the Air Force and Navy supplied test pilots. I suppose that explained the need for a medical corp here. Shocked

I think I'll not tell him about the transition at Great Lakes. That will set him off on his story telling binge again. Happy

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my daughter
Dec 30, 2014 2:30AM PST

is stationed at Cherry Pt, near Lejeune, and sees the beach often. The whole area is swamp there it seems. Very humid. She had a metal roof on her house and it was so humid that one morning I walked out and water was dripping off it onto the deck, but it hadn't rained, just condensation on the metal.

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Morning dew on screened porches
Dec 30, 2014 2:39AM PST

That would happen to us when we'd take beach vacations in S.C. The wooden decks would be wet even though it hadn't rained.

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Naval Air early on was blimps.
Dec 30, 2014 10:45AM PST

I believe some were hangared in Ohio.
Too many crashed in storms; program scrapped.

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Don't know about blimps here
Dec 30, 2014 6:17PM PST

but some of the old hangars were huge. Curtis-Wright made prop craft for the Navy but later gave way to North American Rockwell. We had Lockbourne air base which trained Army pilots on B-17s. The name of the place was changed to Rickenbacker Air Force Base...you've heard of Eddie. Rickenbacker. Lockbourne was the home of the Tuskegee Airmen after WWII but the base was eventually deactivated and came the home of the Ohio ANG. I remember driving down south of town and seeing some of the huge military craft lumbering through the skies and wondering what they were up to.

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Here's a good site for the USS Akron.
Jan 4, 2015 5:12AM PST

Built at the Ohio city BTW.
They were hangared at Lakehurst NJ, which I should have remembered. Between radar, better scout planes and vulnerability to atmospherics they outlived their usefulness.

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When I joined in Detroit they gave me a choice
Dec 30, 2014 10:39AM PST

of camps: GL or San Diego. No-brainer. Happy

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By the way, Digger,
Jan 4, 2015 5:13AM PST

When I first saw your subject line I thought, 'Did someone give away pairs of boots to sailors for Xmas?'
It has been a long time. Happy