I
know, it’s Tuesday, but this is from yesterday on our trip to Fleet Week Naval
ship on Memorial Day. Fleet Week is an event that comes to New York City every year where Navy, Marines, and
Coast Guardsmen put on displays for the City the week prior to Memorial Day and
concluding on Memorial Day. Usually a
major Naval sea vessel docks at one of the ports and allows the public to come
aboard. This year the naval vessel was the
USS San Antonio, an amphibious landing craft which brings Marines or Naval Seals into a disputed
situation. So it carries both Sailors
and Marines.
It
was difficult to choose from all the pictures we took which to post, but here’s
a bunch.
Standing
in front of an artillery cannon with a couple of Marines.
Matthew
holding an M16. He just loved holding
the guns.
On
deck was an Osprey air craft, which is sort of a hybrid helicopter/air
plane. I think Matthew is with the piolt here.
Sitting
inside a landing craft vehicle.
Posing
with a sailor and then Commanding Officers.
And
finally there was a chin up bar which a couple of sailors challenged the guests
to see how many they could do. Matthew
was able to snap Daddy giving it a try.
For
the record, I did four. I told the sailor
I could probably only do two (I low balled it to reduce expectations) but if I
really was going to give it my all I could probably have squeezed out a couple
of more, which I guess is OK for my age.
But the teenage girl before me did ten, which impressed everyone, and
the sailor after me did twelve, but that was 82 for that morning.
Finally
this video explains everything we saw on board.
