I still have a ton of Costa Rica photos to upload, but here are a few photos from this past weekend when Liz, Nick, and I went to the Joint Service Open House at Andrews Air Force Base. You basically spend the day checking out all the cool military equipment that your tax money buys and eating junk food like hamburgers and funnel cake. Mmm tanks and funnel cake. What could be more American?
AWACS
Chinook
Bunker buster
F-35
Cockpit of a DC Air National Guard F-16
The Golden Knights (U.S. Army parachute team)
Liz and I in the Huey
Nixonian
Crazy Red Bull helicopter that did a bunch of tricks
Seahawk
Stryker
Manning the Mk 19 grenade launcher atop the Stryker. Liz and I had to wait in a line full of seven year-olds for our turn to climb up there. No, seriously, everyone playing in the Stryker was at least 20 years younger than us.
Patriot missile battery
Hawkeye
I’m on a boat, I’m on a boat, everybody look at me
USAF Thunderbirds. These guys put on an amazing show.
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From Adam:
Next vacation: you, me, bunch of 18 year olds from Kansas, a stryker, in Khost. Talk about adventure travel.
From Lindsay:
Only if I can man the grenade launcher!
From John:
It’s really sad how most Americans embrace and patronize weapons, without knowing what pain and suffering they are actually capable of, and are, causing
From Adam:
Its really sad that most non Americans don’t realize that American weapons are designed to be as one sided as possible. Meaning that they are efficient at killing, so wars will hopefully be shorter and take fewer lives in the long run. Also modern weapons are designed with features that greatly limit collateral damage and the killing of innocent civilians. So yea, its pretty sweet to go marvel at modern technology and see why we aren’t butchering hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches at the Marne anymore…