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I love Florida rednecks.  I'm working on a documentary where a tree fell on a young man and broke his back.  He's in a chair for the rest of his life.  His family doesn't really have a proper place for him to live, so they are building an apartment for him out by the barn.  Instead of depending on Hoyer lifts to move him around, they've put a couple of steel beams in the ceiling and are installing electric winches so they can run them all around the apartment.  They've begun decorating - there's a mounted deer head above the door.

Need one of those talking mounted largemouth bass if it’s Florida

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Man, I'd have never pegged Chris Carter as an evil white guy.

In September,1976 they lost an F-14 off the deck of the Kennedy in the North Sea. I happened to be pretty close with a bunch of Seals that got ripped away from what they were doing to go make sure that the Ruskies didn’t grab it off the seabed before we could find it. The fire control radar and the Phoenix missiles were the Navy’s pride and joy.

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/18/archives/navy-to-attempt-to-recover-f14-lost-off-carrier-in-north-atlantic.html

Ironically we never hit anything we fired our Phoenix missiles at before they were retired. The Iranians had much better luck with them than we did.

In 1980, the Soviets lost one of their Yak-38 STO/VL fighters into the sea off one of their cruiser carriers.  I was working at Langley AFB at the time, with our USN colleagues a bit further south in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.   Lots of talk then about recovering the Yak, but I don't know if we did.  If they did, I'm sure they were both disappointed and relieved.