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crimsongulf » 29 May 2022, 10:31 pm » wrote: ↑

29 May 2022, 10:31 pm

One year ahead of you, I also won the draft lottery.  I was aboard CVN65 for Linebacker II and we launched mainly to Haiphong.  I was just a guy in a purple shirt slamming JP4 into F4s and A6s.

I heard Haiphong was heavily bombed along the outskirts but the city was supposed to be left alone..? HUH...?
The F-4s with the anahedral tails were sinister looking birds. I ran into a guy at an aerodynamics forum who was part of the design team [for just the tail group] who designed that feature. It was not just to look cool but to reduce drag.  
What I never understood about Navy Ships was why the drinking water tasted like JP-4