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Our flight deck maintenance crew was the best in the business |
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Master Chief Abbott thinks it over |
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Taking a short break during flight ops |
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Plane Captains - some of the hardest working guys you'll ever see on the flight deck |
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Change a main gearbox at sea? |
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Ordance Shop BB Stackers - M-60 in the rack on the right |
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ADJ1 Sherrill and the trusty T-58 |
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Personnel/Admin office folks - another important part of the cog |
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A-1s landed on the Kearsarge one day |
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A-1E from VA-145 on the USS Intrepid |
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A-1 Skyraider on the USS Oriskany dwarfs the "Scooter" behind it. |
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So long Ol' Friend - last of the Skyraiders flies off for the last time |
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We operated SAR Dets off the CVAs |
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We spend way too much time out here in Angel and Starboard Delta |
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Holiday Routine Kearsarge style - holiday for the ship and routine stand-by for the helo crews |
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We carried a Christian Science Monitor reporter around |
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An Indian Gal above the clouds on the 1971 Med cruise |
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Indian Gal and a friend during HS-6's first Med cruise in 1971 |
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Just another day at the office |
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Starboard Delta - what could be more fun? |
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Markings of the 1966 cruise include the insignia below the cockpit window |
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By the 1969 cruise this white and gray color scheme graced our birds |
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Big blue arrow and the Indian Gal is now in the window |
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On the wash rack later on when HS-6 was assigned to the USS Independence - arrow is now on the FOD shield |
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