And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That's what happens when you trust Wikipedia. That F-4 is from VMFA-235, not VMFA-232. Look at the pic embiggened, and it plainly seen.
Except, apparently, by the clodhoppers at Wrongipedia.
But it looks like MCAS Kaneohe all right. Some time between September 1968 and October 1989, the time period when that squadron was equipped with the F-4.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F-4S_VMFA-232_at_Kaneohe_Bay_1984.JPEG
ReplyDeleteKaneohe! Some mountains eh!
ReplyDeleteMarine Air...on time, on target.
ReplyDeleteFormer VMCJ-3/VMFP-3 here. RF4B's
My first cousin, graduate of *West Point, flew 120 missions over North Vietnam in a USMC F-4
Delete*Depending on your class rank, you can pick a different service and he followed his father into the MC.
That's what happens when you trust Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteThat F-4 is from VMFA-235, not VMFA-232.
Look at the pic embiggened, and it plainly seen.
Except, apparently, by the clodhoppers at Wrongipedia.
But it looks like MCAS Kaneohe all right.
Some time between September 1968 and October 1989, the time period when that squadron was equipped with the F-4.
Likely the same crew member (LCPL Tony Kennedy) and same plane (7278) in this photo of an AIM-7 Sparrow:
ReplyDeletehttps://nara.getarchive.net/media/lcpl-tony-kennedy-from-marine-fighter-attack-squadron-235-vmfa-235-mounts-a-568288
Long ago, and far away.
ReplyDeleteVMFA-235...and Hawaii, but this has already been stated earlier.
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