So the monkey took a little stroll down memory lane today and headed out to the annual air show at Miramar. There he joined about 100,000 (this is no exaggeration) of his closest friends for some spectacular aerobatics and dozens of vintage military aircraft that were on display. There was plenty of food, drinks, and military memorabilia on sale that you could pick through when your neck wasn’t cranked up looking at the sky as some screaming jet or helicopter went zooming past.
San Diego is home to the Navy’s Seal Team SIX as well as the training facility for sailors hoping to join this elite force. The two small craft in the first picture are called RHIBs which stands for Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat and are rigged to covertly transport Navy Seals. These two boats were part of a flotilla of about a dozen boats that were returning to their base at the south end of Coronado after training in the ocean. The SH-60 Skyhawk helicopter, hovering over the boats as they raced across San Diego Bay, was used to pull … Continue reading Seals!
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