Re: Squid Re: Toys from Jane's...

In a message dated 4/12/01 9:42:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rmako@coqui.net 
writes:

> In the Coast Guard the black shoes (surface) call us aviators
Airedales as
> well.
> 
> Bob Makowsky
> USCG SAR
> 
> 

Navy canned the brown shoes back in the late seventies, about the time I

enlisted. More then a few old brown shoes got fired off of carrier
catapults. 
My last home port was in Key West, across from the Coast Guard base.
Those 
guys did a lot of good hard and dangerous work. 

John Rebori ETN2 (Discharged)
USN 1976 - 1982
ex-USS Pegasus PHM-1