Bandits at 2 o’clock!

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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock!
Roger; it’s only 1:30 now—what’ll I do ‘til then?
–The Bill Waterson comic character Calvin, of ‘Cavin and Hobbes.’

F-4Js of VF-96 Fighting Falcons, San Diego harbor, 1969. During the 1972 deployment aboard the USS Constellation, LT Randy Cunningham and LTjg Willy Driscoll became America’s first Vietnam aces while flying the lead airplane in this photo.

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5 thoughts on “Bandits at 2 o’clock!”

  1. You know what would be nice? If you put in the little buttons that let me tweet your posts with no effort.

  3. I didn’t realize the bridge had been built as early as ’69. I went thru the P-2 RAG there in ’67 and rode the “Nickel Snatcher” many times, not always 100% sober on the way back. ‘Course, we didn’t have breathalyzers back then.

    I had to clean up my act when I bought a ’68 Healy Sprite and started driving on libs.

    • It was usualy a long bike walk to the barracks after the return ferry ride. What was the name of the bar at the SD ferry landing with all the Navy ship/sqd Zippo lighters? Hundreds of them.

  4. Maggie: Good idea!
    NavyDavy: The nickel snatcher, neat pic.
    Flugelman: I like those Healys. Cool looking. But too small.
    NavyDavy: I dunno, maybe some of the old salts around here might. . .

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