Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue
Poster’s comments:
1)
I use to live on Emerald Isle just about
opposite Bogue Field (and across the Sound).
2)
Most of the jet airplanes practicing
there were Navy planes, which used it a lot for their training, often as a work
up prior to their deployment away from our Country and their Families for a
half a year or so.
3)
It is truly a Navy-Marine Corps team
that does work and train together and despite the obvious frictions, too. All are Americans, of course.
4)
When I lived on Emerald Isle, the old
joke back then was: How do you get a free Harrier (AV-8A at the time)? The answer was to buy an acre of North
Carolina land, and wait.
5)
The present version of the Harrier is
the AV-8B, which looks a lot like the AV-8A, but is really a different (made in
America by Boeing) plane, and much safer to fly and operate. So the old joke
faded in time.
6)
It only takes a few Harriers (and
some landing forces helps, too) to make an impression; demonstrated even during
a West African cruise when the local potentate banned the ship and planes in a
harbor as a threat to his existence.
7)
The now old movie “The Wind and the
Lion” (circa 1975) has some basis in fact.
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