Memphis Marine Years

I spent nearly 18 months in training at Naval Air Station Memphis.  Miniture component repair, basic to advanced electronic and electrical circuit theory, navigation aids, radar wave propagation theory, aircraft avionics & related systems.  My head was about to explode.  I was the old salt on that base when I left.

 

Someone is going for a .... 

TEMP0008.jpg (38822 bytes) um....flight over Navy Lake...?

    TEMP0009.jpg (40511 bytes) Nope, make that a dive in Navy Lake!

TEMP0010.jpg (38136 bytes)   Happy Birthday!

The weather was frequently weird here...This is the parking lot outside the barracks, just after a hellish storm.

TEMP0020.jpg (40008 bytes) Tim swimming in 15 inches of rain water.

TEMP0019.jpg (48375 bytes) You knew that someone was going to get dunked in this puddle...!

TEMP0021.jpg (49167 bytes) TEMP0022.jpg (52858 bytes) Here is Rodney Glidden & I hamming it up for the girls.

 TEMP0023.jpg (44551 bytes) Boys will be boys...

TEMP0024.jpg (41650 bytes) This one is still too clean...we'll fix that!

TEMP0025.jpg (41360 bytes) A quick Full Nelson, followed by a body slam should do the trick!  

TEMP0026.jpg (37341 bytes) Hey - one is trying to get away!!!

 Marines - Memphis War Games 1986.jpg (63498 bytes)   War Games somewhere in mosquito infested Arkansas. 

What a bunch of freaks, right?!  And to think, they're defending the country.

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