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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Uniform Encounters: When the Sea-Lights Come On, the Planes Fly in for Chow
The Chief Torpedo-Dude was so taken with the "supper time for li'l Hornet" pic that he sent this. Someone must have rung the bell: "Hey, kids! It's getting dark! Time to set the table....!"
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More serenity.
He's either out of trim or his port nav light is burned out.
Prob'ly out of trim, doing a snake dance on final...
Unless the pic was reversed, in which case it's the starboard nav light...
No, the pic isn't reversed. Easy to tell, because the prevailing wind is from the northwest.
Other easy way to tell is -- the starboard nav light is green, and the port light is red. The simple way to remember the difference is " 'Red' and 'Right' both start with an 'R' so Red is on the Right, but it ain't."
You can tell it is the stern of the carrier two ways. One, the island is always on the starboard side. Two is the vertical yellow lights. I am not a brown shoe, so I don't know exactly what they are called, but they appear to show the centerline location of the landing area.
Also the usual expresson of red and green is "red right returning" for channel buoys menaing that when coming into port, the buoys should be on the ships port side; if not then you are out of channel and standing into danger. The ease way to remember the green and red running lights is to know that "Port wine is red"
Just my two cents froma black shoe.
Port wine actually comes in a large variety of colors, ranging from deep purple to light, golden amber.
But it's never green.
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