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  1. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    You can tell he is a "fighter guy" by the way he has his jacket unzipped. Helo guys wear it zipped 3/4 of the way up, as per uniform regs.
  2. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Shia LaBeouf's dad is prior Army, Vietnam War. I have known several active duty personnel that have met him on set when he was filming 'Fury' and Transformers. They all say that he went out of his way to interact with the troops. Often times sitting down to have lunch with them or "smoke and...
  3. Treetopflyer

    To throat latch, or not to throat latch?

    Use the throat latch on my G-1 all the time in the winter on the East Coast USA, Virginia and Maryland.
  4. Treetopflyer

    RIP VLJ??

    I have never had a bad experience with VLJ members. There are some members that are a bit OCD when comes to jacket details, but I would not categorize them as mean spirited. The website offered great reference material and links.
  5. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    There are several screen shots of both those movies throughout this thread.
  7. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    Austin Stowell plays U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
  8. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    As a Helo guy, we use Cherubs all the time when talking to military ATC. Anything higher than 1,000 feet (Angels one) is scary.
  9. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    John Turturro in 'Transformers 2'
  10. Treetopflyer

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Having spent 13 weeks with a Marine Drill Instructor at Navy OCS. I would say that Gunnery Sargent Hartman is as close to the real thing that you will get in a Hollywood movie. With that said, the time period shows that Drill Instructors hit their recruits. That would not fly in modern basic...
  11. Treetopflyer

    In terms of a span of years, when do you place the "Greatest Generation"?

    I don't think that I could tag on an age that defines the "Greatest Generation." I have always viewed all Americans during that time as "The Greatest Generation." Yes, it is a term that Brokaw penned, but I think that it is fitting. It was a time when all Americans sacrificed to win the war...
  13. Treetopflyer

    I'm back...

    What's your current Rating?
  14. Treetopflyer

    The USS Indianapolis

    In 1991 they made a movie about the Indianapolis called "Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis" it starred Stacy Keach. It was filmed aboard the USS Alabama in Mobile.
  15. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    I am at PAX, rotary wing operational test.
  16. Treetopflyer

    Famous People in Flight Jackets

    VX-20 at Patuxent River, MD still flies two of them as chase planes for aircraft testing.
  17. Treetopflyer

    Nomex Flyer jacket

    I'm not sure which "shipboard non-flyers jackets" you are referring to (can you provide a picture?). I have never seen a navy blue nomex jacket worn in the U.S. Navy. We used to have a heavy cotton deck jacket that was typically green, but I have seen it in blue. However, that was over 15 years...
  19. Treetopflyer

    Nomex Flyer jacket

    Mine is the same number.
  20. Treetopflyer

    Nomex Flyer jacket

    I am active duty Navy and I turned in my old Nomex jacket four months ago because it ripped. The replacement I was given is the same type of jacket you have. I asked the same question about being the correct jacket. I was told that is what the new issued jackets look like now.
  21. Treetopflyer

    POW Camps in America

    I find this topic very interesting since I grew up ten miles from where a temporary camp had been established in Hollandale, MN. People in the local area still talk about the German POWs that were there. My grandparents were field hands in Hollandale during the war and my Uncle remembers that...
  22. Treetopflyer

    New info on the Amelia Earheart mystery?

    If the Japanese had taken them prisoner, why keep it a secret? Also, why would they think they could get away with taking them prisoner and no one finding out about it? In hind sight we can say that no one knew for sure where they went down, but in real time 1937, I am not so sure the Japanese...
  23. Treetopflyer

    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    Or not written at all. That way there can be no record of it.

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