tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post3278069108532128775..comments2024-03-28T18:36:50.250-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: Cheese Box on a RaftOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43584027280040379832017-02-06T17:51:27.437-08:002017-02-06T17:51:27.437-08:00She pulls that look off very well!She pulls that look off very well!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-78012177967233000452017-02-06T17:24:18.795-08:002017-02-06T17:24:18.795-08:00Often and fashionablyOften and fashionablyTunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930237104692982421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-33788758290645135202017-02-05T18:10:06.609-08:002017-02-05T18:10:06.609-08:00Oh yeah.Oh yeah.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-77965824848958416712017-02-05T17:39:04.999-08:002017-02-05T17:39:04.999-08:00Looks like fun!
Also pretty at night.Looks <a href="https://youtu.be/9U0Mex36J_4" rel="nofollow">like fun</a>!<br /><br />Also pretty <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QB8lwsi9ywM" rel="nofollow"> at night</a>.a bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871505359143633270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-25207428751380569282017-02-05T17:24:23.117-08:002017-02-05T17:24:23.117-08:00I belong to that club Paul. Lazy I am.I belong to that club Paul. Lazy I am.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-82217945843315347282017-02-05T17:22:11.778-08:002017-02-05T17:22:11.778-08:00Just returned from a visit to the Evergreen Air Mu...Just returned from a visit to the Evergreen Air Museum ( in Oregon ) which has many really neat aircraft. It also has a number of Old AF Sergeants hanging around to answer questions from the visitors. As to the "cheese monger", it's easier for me to spell than looking up another word. Lazy I am. <br /><br />Paul L. QuandtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-24648964191124123912017-02-05T15:30:02.566-08:002017-02-05T15:30:02.566-08:00Cool stuff.Cool stuff.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-17670058854516870202017-02-05T15:29:45.869-08:002017-02-05T15:29:45.869-08:00I had no ideer!I had no ideer!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27799886160297548812017-02-05T15:27:43.589-08:002017-02-05T15:27:43.589-08:00I know!I know!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-8253918683377824522017-02-05T15:11:08.846-08:002017-02-05T15:11:08.846-08:00Also, I understand that people have been killed wh...Also, I understand that people have been killed when they got in the way of out-of-control wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano in Italy. I have seen these wheels, and their boxes, and I suspect it could have happened.PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-27212054382460885882017-02-05T15:04:11.237-08:002017-02-05T15:04:11.237-08:00I remember learning about the Monitor and Merrimac...I remember learning about the Monitor and Merrimack in grade school. I was really surprised to find that the Merrimack had been renamed Virginia. I found this out while I was IN Virginia, when I mentioned the topic -- including the Merrimack name -- around some locals. I quickly found that "them's fightin' words!"<br /><br />One of the developments of the monitor concept was the USS Carronade (IFS-1). If you want to see something cool, search up some videos of her firing the spin-stabilized five-inch rocket system in Vietnam.PrairieAdventurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466447251827774900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-45423902475225025642017-02-05T14:52:07.295-08:002017-02-05T14:52:07.295-08:00Jim Kirk??? I think I hear Rod Serling calling!Jim Kirk??? I think I hear Rod Serling calling!Mike aka Proofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08931553845065187278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-64856464378335687052017-02-05T14:06:11.641-08:002017-02-05T14:06:11.641-08:00Often the regulations only make sense to the shoe ...Often the regulations only make sense to the shoe clerks who write them.<br /><br />Like the repeating rifles the North didn't want because "they would use too much ammo."<br /><br />Weather at sea is no one's friend.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-51694590449478276102017-02-05T14:04:30.390-08:002017-02-05T14:04:30.390-08:00That tripod mast looks very Arizona like.
Yamato ...That tripod mast looks very Arizona like.<br /><br /><em>Yamato</em> and her sister <em>Musashi</em> both had 9 18.1 inch guns. Very big guns.<br /><br />I see that one of the <em>Lord Clive</em> actually fired her guns in action, <em>General Wolfe</em> whose namesake died on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec City.<br /><br />Funny how so many historical things tie together.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-9364914737126331132017-02-05T13:40:39.660-08:002017-02-05T13:40:39.660-08:00I'm a fan of the WWI-era Lord Clive class moni...I'm a fan of the WWI-era <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor#/media/File:The_Surrender_of_the_German_High_Seas_Fleet,_November_1918_Q19294.jpg" rel="nofollow">Lord Clive class</a> monitors. Yes, that's an EIGHTEEN INCH gun.<br /><br />(More <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)a bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871505359143633270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-32621572459166306202017-02-05T12:44:01.880-08:002017-02-05T12:44:01.880-08:00The Monitor's guns were, by regulation, under-...The Monitor's guns were, by regulation, under-powered. This resulted in the failure to penetrate the Virginia's armor. (Once again, Navy regs remove the ability to actually fight the enemy.)<br /><br />The Virginia was carrying mostly shells and other ammunition that was effective against wooden ships. She was not equipped with ammo for fighting a fort (solid or semi-solid rounds.)<br /><br />So the two ships basically spent all their time circling and shooting, mostly ineffectively, at each other.<br /><br />It would have been a much shorter and more decisive fight if either or both the combatants had been fighting at full capacity against their opponent.<br /><br />Sad that that one fight was the last for both ships, the Monitor to storms and the Virginia destroyed by her own side. Seems the weather and your own people have always been a warship's worst enemy.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-32307605588320782352017-02-05T10:55:06.171-08:002017-02-05T10:55:06.171-08:00Another museum I need to visit.Another museum I need to visit.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-2184614413084148852017-02-05T10:54:46.603-08:002017-02-05T10:54:46.603-08:00Hahaha!
(And the Zumwalt's first captain was ...Hahaha!<br /><br />(And the Zumwalt's first captain was Jim Kirk. Coincidence?)OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-71072199663371226532017-02-05T10:53:29.117-08:002017-02-05T10:53:29.117-08:00Your wife is a "hat person" isn't sh...Your wife is a "hat person" isn't she?OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-21818658479109547922017-02-05T10:53:06.042-08:002017-02-05T10:53:06.042-08:00They do look like hat boxes.They do look like hat boxes.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-26308169620654885922017-02-05T10:52:47.209-08:002017-02-05T10:52:47.209-08:00A cheese monger? I had no idea we still called the...A cheese monger? I had no idea we still called them that. I learn something every day.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-43883768483041594802017-02-05T10:50:27.901-08:002017-02-05T10:50:27.901-08:00They certainly were odd-looking ships.They certainly were odd-looking ships.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-61031136159231357902017-02-05T10:49:24.667-08:002017-02-05T10:49:24.667-08:00First of her type, but not the last.First of her type, but not the last.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59269210691204990092017-02-05T10:48:22.506-08:002017-02-05T10:48:22.506-08:00Interesting little video. And that is a big part o...Interesting little video. And that is a big part of the museum at Hampton Roads!Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6920324210115087772017-02-05T10:48:20.075-08:002017-02-05T10:48:20.075-08:00I had no doubt as to that.I had no doubt as to that.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.com