Popeye's San Diego vacation
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Ok...I see...
When I visited the Midway back in June I was surprised to see how clean and well ordered it seem to be. I doubt if should could actually "get underway".
If the Midway was part of almost any other navy in the world she would be still in service. Probaly with an airwing like this;
48 attack/fighters. Hornets, Rafale.
10-12 Merlins/Dauphin/SH-60 ASW/SAR/AEW helos.
And if your a "Good Friend" of the US maybe you will get 4 or 5 E2's..
Is that the Nimitz in the background over at NAS North Island?
The Midway does seem to get a lot of traffic, but think of its location...not to far from the ball park, near the expo center, and a walking distance from the Gas Lamp.
The Midway does seem to get a lot of traffic, but think of its location...not to far from the ball park, near the expo center, and a walking distance from the Gas Lamp.
I think the Nimitz was inport at NASNI when I was in San Diego this past June.
The Midway is in an excellent location. Right in Downtown San Diego at the foot of Brodway. Over 1,000,000 visitors a year vist the Midway musuem. Making it the #2 tourist attraction in San Diego behind the San Diego Zoo.
The Midway Musuem is also the second most visited maritime musuem in the World . 2nd only to the USS Arizona Memorial in Peral Harbor Hawaii.
Going to san diego anytime soon? You have to visit the USS Midway..it's simply magic!
The reason the Arizona is second is once again due to location San Diego is cheaper that Hawaii...plus San Dog has so many .mil folks.
Well AO1/C/CS ... maybe CM I'm heading out the door have a good one.
Actually the Arizona is #1..Midway is #2..re-read my post..
Hey I was an AO1..But I was forced to change my rate to PR because of my eyesight. I wound up as an PR1 when I retired...Shoulda fought to stay an ordie!
Ah... did you ever get the chance to get a jump pin?
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Hahahah Fu you probably thought of a James Earl Jones simply because he was in the movie the Hunt for red October and the fact that popeye does have a certain distant physical similarity to the man who did the voice of Darth Vader.......O gawd.... hope this doesn't mean that all future posts I read from popeye will be in that most famous of movie voices.
If anybody has a soundboard now is your big chance, to take Popeyes best posts in this forum and give the appearance are being read by James Earl Jones.
As for the wonderful pictures I enjoyed them immensely. You really do have a good life and family, more power to you.