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Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) My Navy “career” was a short four years. Actually, it was 3 Years, 11 Months, & 29 Days, But Who’s Counting? It may have been short, but during those formidable years, 1973-77, I learned a… Read more#132—The Navy That Stayed with Me Through the Years
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam – 1974 Oohhhh, baby. That’s it. “Ooh-Ga!” A little lower. “Ah-Ooh-Ga!” Don’t stop… “AHHH-OOOH-GAAA!” “Chet. Chet. Wake up, Chet.” “What the hell, Borne? I’m in the middle of a dream.”… Read more#131—Japan Air Lines 747: Engine Out
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.”? In what movie did we hear, “Normal is a setting on the dryer.”? In what song did we hear?The full moon… Read more#129—I May Have Left the Navy But…
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “One you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”? Match the following one-liners with the appropriate movie: “It’s alive! It’s alive!” 2001 A Space Odyssey “What we’ve got here… Read more#127—Rig the Barricade
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) “What the hell took you so long, Chet?” Borne was his usual self—always smiling, cracking a joke, and making light of the moment. He knew the chow lines were often long enough to finish a… Read more#124—Nighttime on the Flight Deck, Part 1: Launch
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “Don’t take criticism from people you would never go to for advice.”? In what movie (and who said it) did we hear, “I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a… Read more#123—I Thought I’d Heard Everything, Part 3
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “Life gets more precious when there’s less of it to waste.”? In what movie (and who said it), did we hear, “We thought you was a toad.”? In what song (and who sang… Read more#122—“Three-two…” and Other Navy “Numbers” I Can Never Forget
There are times in our lives when the past seems to merge with the present. For me, this was one of them. I recently returned from a reunion of USS Kitty Hawk veterans, held in San Diego. Many of these… Read more#120—Merging the Past with the Present
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”? Who said (and what TV show), “Can it, numbnuts!”? What song (and who first sang it) did… Read more#117—“Mail Call”
Trivia Questions (Answers @ end) Who said, “Stay away from negative people; they have a problem for every solution.”? In what movie (and who said it) did we hear, “The old ways are sometimes the best.”? Who sang (and what… Read more#116—A Veteran’s “Bond”