Our VP40 reunion groups Ships Store is UP and running as of today.

check it out.

Order now and beat the Christmas rush ………………………

Guy

We finally have the merchandise that people ordered at the last reunion.

We will be shipping it out starting this week. If you did NOT prepay, you will find a bill

in your package that  includes shipping. Please pay it by sending your  checks to Guy Fisk.

We will begin opening our VP40 Ships Store on this web site next week. You can order items

by emailing Bob Polk or me

thanks and let me know if you have any problems with it.

Guy Fisk

Navy Chiefs Are Honorable

One day, while a Navy Chief was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe
fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, “Why are you
crying?” The Chief replied that his axe had fallen into the water, and he needed
the axe to make his living. The Lord went down into the water and reappeared
with a golden axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked.

The Chief replied, “No.”

The Lord again went down and came up with a silver axe. “Is this your axe?” the
lord asked.

Again the Chief replied, “No.” The Lord went down again and came up with an
iron axe. “Is this your axe?” the Lord asked.

The Chief replied, “Yes.”

The Lord was pleased with the Chief’s honesty and gave him all three axes to
keep, and the Chief went back to the ship happy.

Sometime later the Chief was walking with his wife along the riverbank, and his
wife fell into the river.

When he cried out, the Lord again appeared and asked him, “Why are you crying?”

“Oh Lord, my wife has fallen into the water!”

The Lord went down into the water and came up with Angelina Jolie. “Is this your
wife?” the Lord asked.

“Yes,” cried the Chief.

The Lord was furious. “You lied! That is an untruth!”
The Chief replied, “Oh, forgive me, my Lord. It is a misunderstanding. You see, if
I had said ‘no’ to Angelina Jolie, you would have come up with Cameron Diaz.
Then if I said ‘no’ to her, you would have come up with my wife. Had I then said
‘yes’ you would have given me all three. Lord, I am poor old seagoing Chief, and am not able to take care of all three wives in a way that they should be, so that’s
why I said yes to Angelina Jolie.”

The moral of this story is: Whenever a Navy Chief lies, it is for a good and
honorable reason, and for the benefit of others. That’s my story, and I’m sticking
to it.

Some news  for you all.

We have some members of our group who have planned a trip to Cavite City, PI.

They are departing 2/28/2013 for 1 month. They will be staying in Cavite City and will be taking a LOT of pictures/ videos and writing stories of their experiences.

They will have access to  Sangley Point Base, it is still active for the Phillippine Air Force/Navy.

I will post some of the pictures etc. on this web site. I will generate a slide/video show of their data

as well of what I can gather of the old 50,s/60’s pictures of over there and show it at our next reunion. I will make it available on here as well.

The people traveling are:

Jack Fisher     ADR1  1961-1965

Mike Kane        AK3 1064-1968

Gerorge and his wife Karen Perkins      ADR2 1962-1966

Lets wish them well and I look forward to hearing and reading all about their trip upon their return

Glenn passed away on 2/13/2013

For your information:

LOWES and HOME DEPOT both will provide a 10% ANY day of the year for veterans. If you have a USN retired card or a VA card or a copy of your DD214,  just show it at checkout.

Over the weekend I had a hacker try and flood this site with new registrations.

It did not work BUT I have removed the registration feature from the site for the present.

For all VP40 dues paying members,  I will send you a login ID name and password that will allow you to access

some data that will not be available to the general public. Items such as our current roster info.

thanks and keep sending me pictures and stories folks. I see we are averaging 40-50 hits a day now since our reunion in Oct.

In the near future I will publish the Spring 2013 Newsletter on this site.

keep healthy and happy swabbies

Guy Fisk

http://www.flightradar24.com/

Plane Lovers and Pilots will love this video……. and so will every red blooded American.

http://www.youtube.com/v/RU1oB8sGyYM

Landing SFO San Francisco Airport Onboard Airbus A380-800

FRA-SFO, Lufthansa from Frankfurt to SFO, clear day

In case you might wonder what it looks and sounds like from the front seat. The Airbus A380-800 is one of the largest passenger planes seating over 500 people.

Lufthansa is the National Airline of Germany.

Click here: Landing SFO San Francisco Airport On Board Airbus A380-800 – YouTube