Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Lt. Col. David Mayhan of Foster City brought his family up to get a look at the machinery he rarely gets to see as a Marine reservist stationed in San Bruno.
His 8-year-old daughter Megan peered into a high-tech sardine can that swims at a speed of 6 knots or travels on land with two dozen Marines wedged inside for hours at a time, knees interlocked, en route to combat.
After having a look, Megan decided she'd rather be a kindergarten teacher than a Marine.
"It smells weird, like oil," she said. "And it's dark."
Maybe it's just me, but dark and smelling like oil sounds like it beats the shit outta a roomful of kids who smell like, well, kids who are trying to give you a cold for nine months of the year. To each his own.
The photo gallery placed way too much emphasis on aviation. Some nice shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, and an inflatable Marine (aren't we all?).
The centerpiece of Fleet Week should arguably be USS Makin Island (LHD 8) so I went and scrounged a photo for you. Here she is transiting the Straits Of Magellan:
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