On a deployment to Guam back in '86 with a Seabee battalion, we had a standby generator project on the Naval Mag. Within earshot of the project site was a nondescript building for the EOD unit stationed there. No windows, big doors, definitely been there awhile and surrounded by jungle on the sides... and stenciled on the door "Where no man has gone before." Chills...
"When you are well trained and well led with the right climate - things, in this case it really did, can come out of the blue that you haven't EXACTLY trained for, but ... you've done some things kind of like it."
Love to see tales like this when it's crunch time.
When I was in Squadron Command, that became our squadron motto; we put it in all our communications and our email signatures. It genuinely started to change the culture within because we started to believe it ourselves. “Yeah, we can do that.”
Would have preferred to have seen an F/A18 from whidbey island launch an aim 9 as that thing crossed the western adiz boundary.
On a deployment to Guam back in '86 with a Seabee battalion, we had a standby generator project on the Naval Mag. Within earshot of the project site was a nondescript building for the EOD unit stationed there. No windows, big doors, definitely been there awhile and surrounded by jungle on the sides... and stenciled on the door "Where no man has gone before." Chills...
Good stuff.
"When you are well trained and well led with the right climate - things, in this case it really did, can come out of the blue that you haven't EXACTLY trained for, but ... you've done some things kind of like it."
Love to see tales like this when it's crunch time.
A well deserved BZ.
Thanks Sal!
I was in ordnance and worked with some of the EOD guys over the years. They were solid professionals.
Great photos. I would be the guy leaning back holding onto the gunwale, staying out of the way of guys who know what they are doing.
I have realized that most of the UFOs dismissed as "weather balloons" during the Cold War were likely, in fact, weather balloons.
HUZZAH!
Should check balloon remains for more Biden classified docs.
When I was in Squadron Command, that became our squadron motto; we put it in all our communications and our email signatures. It genuinely started to change the culture within because we started to believe it ourselves. “Yeah, we can do that.”