Old military photos from 20 to 30 years back

SUBMAN1 · 07-16-08, 03:19 PM

Some of these pics are pretty cool.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=108699

-S

Platapus · 07-16-08, 08:28 PM

Most cool pix

Sailor Steve · 07-16-08, 09:13 PM

Old? Twenty to thirty years, OLD?:p

I noticed the one with the ships shows a Gearing class destroyer, but being 1988 and the bow number tell me it was sold much earlier to another navy, probably Argentina or Brazil. I also notice that we kept the ASROC box when we sold her.

Mine was taken in 1970:

I have better ones of the ship closer to us, including highlining, but unfortunately they're in storage so I can't scan them in right now.

Platapus · 07-17-08, 05:29 AM

It is a sad fact, Sailor Steve.... the 80's were a long time ago

Ancient history

Dinosaurs

We are old

Sailor Steve · 07-17-08, 08:28 AM

No, the '80s were just yesterday. I had already been married six years when the eighties arrived. I was in the navy when the Beatles broke up. I saw Sink The Bismarck and The Longest Day in the theater. I know I'm old, because I remember the sixties. The eighties aren't old.

I'm so old I hated Van Halen because they weren't like the music from my day. I remember when Kenny Loggins was the guy who played second banana to Jim Messina. I remember when the Who did their 25th Anniversary tour, in 1989, and I thought "Wow! It's been a long time! I'm getting old!"

Those who think you're getting old because you were a kid in the eighties, well, I say you're still a kid. But then, when my daughter turned 21 I complained to my dad that I was starting to feel old, and he said "Let me tell you a little secret: people in their seventies don't appreciate hearing children in their fifties whine about feeling old."

Jimbuna · 07-17-08, 10:44 AM

Some cool photos there

August · 07-17-08, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

No, the '80s were just yesterday. I had already been married six years when the eighties arrived. I was in the navy when the Beatles broke up. I saw Sink The Bismarck and The Longest Day in the theater. I know I'm old, because I remember the sixties. The eighties aren't old.

I'm so old I hated Van Halen because they weren't like the music from my day. I remember when Kenny Loggins was the guy who played second banana to Jim Messina. I remember when the Who did their 25th Anniversary tour, in 1989, and I thought "Wow! It's been a long time! I'm getting old!"

Those who think you're getting old because you were a kid in the eighties, well, I say you're still a kid. But then, when my daughter turned 21 I complained to my dad that I was starting to feel old, and he said "Let me tell you a little secret: people in their seventies don't appreciate hearing children in their fifties whine about feeling old."

There's so much truth in this it hurts!

07-16-08, 03:19 PM	#1
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Old military photos from 20 to 30 years back Some of these pics are pretty cool. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...d.php?t=108699 -S __________________

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Most cool pix __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Old? Twenty to thirty years, OLD?:p I noticed the one with the ships shows a Gearing class destroyer, but being 1988 and the bow number tell me it was sold much earlier to another navy, probably Argentina or Brazil. I also notice that we kept the ASROC box when we sold her. Mine was taken in 1970: I have better ones of the ship closer to us, including highlining, but unfortunately they're in storage so I can't scan them in right now. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-17-08, 05:29 AM	#4
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,384 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	It is a sad fact, Sailor Steve.... the 80's were a long time ago Ancient history Dinosaurs We are old __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

07-17-08, 08:28 AM	#5
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	No, the '80s were just yesterday. I had already been married six years when the eighties arrived. I was in the navy when the Beatles broke up. I saw Sink The Bismarck and The Longest Day in the theater. I know I'm old, because I remember the sixties. The eighties aren't old. I'm so old I hated Van Halen because they weren't like the music from my day. I remember when Kenny Loggins was the guy who played second banana to Jim Messina. I remember when the Who did their 25th Anniversary tour, in 1989, and I thought "Wow! It's been a long time! I'm getting old!" Those who think you're getting old because you were a kid in the eighties, well, I say you're still a kid. But then, when my daughter turned 21 I complained to my dad that I was starting to feel old, and he said "Let me tell you a little secret: people in their seventies don't appreciate hearing children in their fifties whine about feeling old." __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-17-08, 10:44 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,742 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Some cool photos there __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!