Made The Local Paper Kilted

**Earl D** · 19th November 09, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Congrats, Ron, and thanks for providing this service.

By the way, what is a "brown shoe"?

I might be wrong but IIRC, Brown shoe refers to Naval Officers assigned to an Aviation Billet between WWII and the Viet Nam War.

**Kilted Magyar** · 19th November 09, 03:08 PM

Correct Earl-D. There was the brown shoe Navy and the black shoe Navy.
Terrific picture!

**Ruanaidh** · 19th November 09, 03:24 PM

Looking good as usual, Ron.

**RockyR** · 19th November 09, 03:45 PM

Lookin good, Ron!

**dfmacliam** · 19th November 09, 04:12 PM

Good deal, Ron! glad to see you representing!

**andyfg** · 19th November 09, 04:14 PM

Well done Ron!

**kennethrmc** · 19th November 09, 04:33 PM

Looking sharp and proud, good on ya Ron!

**Sammac** · 19th November 09, 05:40 PM

Representing the Navy and kilts, both successfully. Way to multitask!

**Riverkilt** · 19th November 09, 06:27 PM

Aye, Brown Shoe Navy is Naval Aviation. My uncle flew anti-sub PBY's in War 2 and was a carrier flight officer forever, retired as a full commander. Never made Captain - said it was due to not getting a college degree, dropping out after Pearl Harbor to enlist. My cousin graduated Annapolis and commanded a small Naval Air Station. During Viet Nam he flew some sort of huge "spook" plane that monitored communications and that would from time to time "dance" with Russian fighters. He won't/can't talk about the details.