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My grandparents immigrated. Pretty damn American to me. 🇺🇸
My grandpa was a B17 ball turret gunner in WWII, hit flak, parachuted out, and was captured in Germany. Spent 2 years as a POW. At 19 years old. This is the type of sacrifice that makes me so proud to be American! Happy 4th!
My grandmother, who had never went to school nor spoke English, passed the American history and English test in one try for her naturalization.
Served overseas with a few guys who were killed. Most American thing anyone can do.
Grandfather was at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th. Got blown off his ship and survived. Then did the Pacific campaign on the battleship Nevada
Isn’t being American more than being in the military?
That’s a corvair F-106 interceptor.
Chances are your grandfather was carrying AIR-2 Genie 1.5kt nuclear tipped unguided rockets. The plan was to shoot the rockets towards formations of Russian bombers and hope that Einstein’s theory of relativity would sort things out for our side
F’ing wild
I’m a massive nerd when it comes to nuclear weapons history in the US, so as long as you guys keep showing up with stories of your relatives tickling the dragon’s tail, I’m going to keep getting all hot and bothered.
EY4’s dad’s efforts WRT the trident SLBM most likely contributed to the single most pivotal addition to the US’s nuclear triad: the ability to dynamically maneuver 24 missiles, each with up to 12 MIRV’d warheads, off of the coast the USSR, and now Russia. That’s 288 independently targetable warheads, or essentially the ability for a single submarine to destroy an entire country.
The average American has no concept of how absurdly destructive our country can be if push comes to shove. I’m a peace-loving, tree-hugging liberal who is amazed that we have entrusted the launch codes to 18 such submarines to a man who appointed Rick Perry to oversee the organization tasked with maintaining these weapons.
But I digress... #murica
This dude at a cookout was wearing an American flag tank
Ps I love the US, I hate war, love peace, and generally hope the us will generally transition to a much lower marshal profile on the international scene.
Grandpa flew this looking for soviet nuclear subs in American waters. Has a picture of one he caught but it is back at his house.
My grandpa was a marine in the pacific theatre. Was at Iwo Jima. Carried the big radio. Lots of his friends died protecting him. Not good stuff.
FWIW, I like D1’s consulting play: misidentify the platform, incorrectly google search the weapon, misunderstand the state of the art at the time, misunderstand the doctrine, and the tell OP to check his [primary] sources.
Vintage D1
That looks like an F11 Tiger. Google search reveals that these were armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder, which were not nuclear tipped. In general, OP i would double check the story - the nuclear weapons weren’t nearly as minituarized back in the 50s; it also makes little sense to carry a nuclear missile for use in air to air combat simply due to close proximity in dogfights. It’s not a common practice to this day.
Immigrated to the U.S. of A. and rocking it here Pretty fucking American in my books.
@PwC3 - I agree, most people have no idea how much power even one trident sub carries in its missile tubes. My dad was aboard during the Cold War and I’ve heard stories of spending weeks in absolute silence while playing cat and mouse with a Russian boat. No showers, no toilet flushes, paper plates, and whisper comms only. I could see the stresses of those times in his eyes as he retold them
F106 delta dart. No bubble canopy because they weren’t designed for dogfights. Top speed of Mach 2.3. Intercept doctrine at that time was to scramble , run up to the incoming Russia. Bomber formation and let loose the nuke. They were instructed to pick which eye they wanted to keep and cover that eye with their free hand while yanking on the yoke to pull away. The detonation flash would blind the other eye and hopefully decimate the Russian inbound bogies.
K1: that’s sincerely bad ass
My dad served in the navy working on the missile guidance systems in Ohio-Class trident submarines (SSBN). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II
Also if we gonna compare... grandpas - both of mine stuck it pretty hard to the Nazis in the War. One as a paratrooper, the other one as a machine gunner. ✌️