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03-17-07, 12:25 AM
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| Half a world away
I am currently 13 hours time difference from my "home". Deployed to Okinawa maintaining F-22's from Langley AFB in Virginia. I have snapped a few pix, and thought I'd share a couple. To get here we stopped in Hawaii for rest, and had a couple aircraft make a non scheduled stop on Wake Island for a generator problem. Here are a couple pix. The first is out lead jet parked at the "Red Carpet" on Hickam AFB
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 12:26 AM
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| The welcome sign at Wake Island
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 12:28 AM
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| Looking out of the gun port of a Japanese bunker on Wake island. All the bunkers on the island were built by American POW's civilian and military.
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 12:29 AM
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| Launching off of Wake Island.
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 12:30 AM
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| And Take-Off!
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 12:56 AM
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| I feel so bad for you 
Don't have to much fun. Yake some picks of cruisers for Christ's sake!
Nice jets. Better than the C-5's I used to work on.
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there is a limit to what one country can afford to do, and we have hit ours. what use is winning their freedom, if it costs us our own?
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03-17-07, 01:07 AM
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| I already have a few pix of some 7x series in that section. Too bad I can't just pick one up and ship it home though. So many different models of Land Cruisers here. Makes me sick.
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1973 FJ40: SOA, Locked, Caged, etc........... NEVER DONE!
1991 FJ80: Stock.... for a while. (now in my parents posession)
1996 FZJ80: CDL switch, pin-7'd, and running boards removed. Tons on the list.
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03-17-07, 01:13 AM
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Originally Posted by green73 I already have a few pix of some 7x series in that section. Too bad I can't just pick one up and ship it home though. So many different models of Land Cruisers here. Makes me sick. | yeah doesn't it piss you off.How come the rest of the world gets so many cool cruisers? I was thinking about it today and I think it is a conspiracy. I think the 70 series would have been to much competition in the American market. Another thing is. We have such an abundance of paved roads that reliable 4x4's are almost needless for the average consumer unless you live in a climate that gets an abundance of snow.
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there is a limit to what one country can afford to do, and we have hit ours. what use is winning their freedom, if it costs us our own?
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03-17-07, 01:18 AM
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| I like that first pic!!
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03-17-07, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: 26.7N/81.45W * 9.58N/84.2W * 15.58N/119.5E
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| Nice Pics, thanks for posting them up.
I was in Oki for 2 1/2 years. Great place to be outside.
Thanks for serving. Have a  for me (Orion of course, it's an Okinawan original) | |
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03-17-07, 11:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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| Cool pics!
If you ever make it to the mainland (around Nagoya anyway) let me know! | |
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03-17-07, 11:26 AM
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Join Date: May 2005 Location: hey, did you lose my arial photographs?
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| i want one. i wonder what the payments are.
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03-17-07, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Tampa
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| Every time I see one of those I can't help but think it's a photochopped pic. Cool thing is - they really are that surreal looking. Have fun out there. | 
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