#point mugu

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Off the edge of the Map.

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calming tide

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North to Alaska Henry Hathaway. 1960

Town Point Mugu, CA 93042, USA See in map

See in imdb

[ladylucksrogue]

Road trip day 2:

Woke up in San Diego this morning, went to the USS Midway museum, which is incredible. It's an aircraft carrier and we had a blast. Took about a million pictures. We then spent hours in the notorious LA traffic crawling through the city and drove down Hollywood Blvd so that my husband could see what all the fuss is about. We then drove down the canyon to Malibu ( what a crazy but breathtaking drive through the Santa Monica mountains!) And up to Point Mugu to spend the night. Pictures to follow...

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I love coming here with my favorite person to watch this sunset. This day was particularly cold and windy so made it a short trip but had a great time at the Getty Center before coming to Point Mugu.

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California.

Point Mugu State Park, too.

There is a challenge geocache to find over 90% of the hidden geocaches along the Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. There's a particularly long section that would be hard to cover in day hikes at the west end. Scott (GSMx2) organized a shuttle hike to do the 15 miles downhill. We first climbed to the top of Sandstone Peak, the range high point, then down down down to Sycamore Canyon via some rolling highlands and some feeder canyons. From March 2016.

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F-14A-159008-VF32-OCEANA-MAY76 by Michel Klaveren

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Thornhill Broome Beach Camping Reservations Point Mugu

If you plan to camp at Thornhill Broome Beach, keep in mind that it is mainly catered towards RV campers, but there are a few campsites available for tents. It’s worth noting that the wind can be pretty strong along the Southern California coast, particularly during the winter season. This beach is located within Point Mugu State Park. The main attraction here is being able to pull up your RV and…

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An F-4 Phantom and F-14 Tomcat of the VX-4 Evaluators (1990s). VX-4 was based at NAS Point Mugu, California, and was responsible for testing and evaluating fighter weapon systems such as missiles, radar warning devices and self-protection jammers for the Navy. The squadron was disbanded in 1994.

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The last two USN  S-3B Vikings photographed over Laguna Peak near Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California on Dec. 18, 2015.

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An F/A-18C Hornet from the U.S. Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 31 (VX-31) takes off from Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu in Southern California for a training mission on August 10, 2023.

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Still dreaming

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USS Dale (DLG-19) Launching a Terrier guided missile, while steaming off Point Mugu, California, in April 1964. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

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05 - Muwu

Pronunciation /muwu/, /muː/

Etymology From Proto-Pirngu *mugu, from Proto-Trans-New Guinea *mugu

Noun muwu (erg. muwwak, def. ti-muwu, indef. muwu-mang, int. mim-muwu)

A banana plant, typically the common Pirngu banana, grown ubitiquously on Pirngu ships.

The starchy, low-sugar fruits of the Pirngu banana, eaten whole or ground into a dough, raw, grilled, boiled, fried, or steamed.

Banana leaves, used to wrap food for cooking, as a writing surface, and as shade and fans.

Banana stem fiber, used to make strong cloth and cordage.

Verb muwu (past. mumuwu)

To grow, harvest, and process banana plants.

Bonus Word! muwu-muwu-muwu

(noun) The triple-banana special food, consisting of starchy banana dough with various meats, fruits, nuts, and other tasty things wrapped in a banana leaf, tied with banana fiber string, and grilled. The word is triplicated to show the three gifts of the banana plant, and is the center-point of the banana harvest feast.

(verb) To prepare the triple-banana special food.

Example Sentences

Nggarwi nda tak ti-wun ngur-mang ka muwu — “I am making a cloth from banana fiber”

Muwwak kaim ti-rungu-na — “Banana satisfies my hunger”

Mbiwa ut muwwak pinam kunjumin? — “Do you smell the cooking banana?”

Angur ti-narungak mun nda nua muwu-muwu-muwu ndarung iru — “I love triple-banana food the most” (more literally, “the love that I feel for banana-banana-banana overwhelms all love”)

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IceMav Landmarks

For the curious, here’s a few real-world points of interest with regards to the Shooting Star series:  

Ice and Mav’s first little house that they buy in “The Night Road” is located just to the west of Oxnard College in Oxnard, CA.  There is no specific neighborhood to pinpoint.  It’s within a quarter-mile of the college, with a natural foods co-op market within a mile west or southwest of it.  

Their second house is located in Simi Valley, in a relatively new and actually quite wealthy subdivision.  It’s within 2 miles of the Simi Dog Park, so that when Mav goes out for his daily run he runs to the dog park and back for the full 4 miles as he intends to do in “Hiding and Hunted”.  Ice and Mav mostly designed the new house (with the help of an architect) and had it built in 2018, so it’s still very new.  

Sarah’s psychotherapy practice is in Pasadena, CA.  Look up the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA and the picture that comes up on Google Maps is the model I had for her office as used in “The Devil You Know”.  

NAS Point Mugu and Point Mugu State Park are as in the real world, though of course with my own inventions as to their layouts and contents.  They’re quite a ways west of the city, on the coast.  Oxnard is north and west of the base so it’s an easy drive in to work for Ice and Mav, and not too much longer later once they build the Simi Valley house.  

Slider went home to New York after he left the Navy but once Avex Aeronautics became a real going concern they relocated their operations to Phoenix, AZ and he relocated there himself.  I don’t have a specific location for where he lives though, but I imagine it’s near Sky Ranch at Carefree in the northeast part of the city where he keeps the little red jet.  When he comes up to see Ice and Mav he flies out of there and lands at Camarillo Airport which is near their Simi Valley house.

Sayyad, Kholm, the AH-76 and FOB Robatak in "The Night Road” are real places, as is the narrow valley where Mav was shot down.  Look up Sayyad, Afghanistan and you’ll see the AH-76, then just west of that you’ll see the mountains that constitute the narrow valley.  The south end of those mountains are the narrow part where Mav flies sideways on one wingtip, and what told Ice he’d been bored with the patrol pattern and was playing when he was shot down.  The place where Mav was found by Bowcott and his squad is Saighanchi between Sayyad and Kholm.  I used the pictures on that entry quite a lot as to what the terrain was like in the area, the caves, etc.

Dryden Flight Research Center is a real place, though these days it’s been renamed to NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center.  If you look it up on Google Maps and switch to the terrain view, look at the dry lake bed to the east of the center.  They’ve got a very convenient compass and several landing strips carved into the dry lake bed.  Almost directly east from the center, at the edge of the lake bed, you’ll see a small mountain with no name that looks like it’s been split down the middle from east to west.  This is Turnaround Hill, where Slider and Sarah went to watch Mav on his Mach 10 flight in “The Shooting Star” and where the disturbance and Alan appeared in “Windfall”.  

Hope you enjoy!  

[snicker-doodles]

so this is basically my thought process for how an Icemav marriage might work in the real world setting

DADT was repealed in 2011. 

In 2012, the first openly gay general in the United States military literally came out by asking her wife to pin the general star on her uniform during her military promotion ceremonies (read the article here), and since then she still got promoted twice more before finally retired after 35 years of service. But, her wife is a civilian.

So next, there are the fraternization rules to think about, which I’m not sure how it works, but I read that it’s possible to get married as long as both are officers of the same rank at the time of their wedding, and if in the future one of them got promoted to a higher rank, then their spouse simply will not be stationed under their chain of command. So it’s technically possible?

Now about the Icemav marriage

Technically, it’s possible that they’re still of the same rank in 2011, considering all their achievements, both maverick and ice were likely to be promoted at the same pace, so, as long as they got married as soon as DADT was repealed, then it should be fine.  

But then Ice started to get promoted to a desk job, while maverick chose to fly instead of doing boring desk job, so he often refuse to be promoted, which means he can no longer be stationed under Ice’s chain of command. If this is what happened, then they won’t be able to live together, and can only see each other during Mav’s leave.

Or, actually, Maverick doesn't have to be afraid of promotion, since there's actually a real life maverick in the US Navy who got promoted into an Admiral but then literally change the rules so he can keep flying (read the article here).

Here’s an excerpt from that article:

“While most officers his age and rank plant themselves behind desks, the Naval commander at Point Mugu prefers to streak through the sky at supersonic speeds in one of the Navy’s hottest fighter jets.

As the ranking officer in Ventura County, Rear Adm. George H. Strohsahl Jr. has rewritten the rules so he can fly regularly with other Navy pilots above the Pacific Missile Test Center.

He juggles his schedule, sending his secretaries into momentary panic, to join the fraternity of hotshot pilots at Point Mugu who routinely fly in tests of the nation’s latest high-tech missiles.

“I’m like a kid in a candy store,” the admiral says. “If left to my own devices, I’d be flying 12 or 14 hours a day.”

At 52, this two-star admiral ventures into the airspace in a way few his age or rank have gone before.”

So

I think, instead of choosing to remain a captain, someone like Mav is more likely to want to be promoted to avoid any fraternization problem and then do this kinda stunt. So at the time of TG:M, it actually made sense if Mav has become an Admiral, at the very least a 2 star Rear Admiral like Cyclone. I mean, imagine all kinds of trouble Admiral Mitchell got himself into, since, you know, not only he’s insane, but he would actually have real power to abuse here, lol. 

Now picture this:

Mav is the Naval commander at Point Mugu in California, while Ice is the COMPACFLT stationed in Hawaii. Well, the fleet HQ is actually at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam in Hawaii, with large secondary facilities at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, so, maybe they have a house in San Diego, and Ice spend half his time in Hawaii and half in San Diego? legit don’t know how it actually works lol. But in TGM, Ice did have a house in San Diego, so. 

Mav didn't pull Bradley’s paper, so the Kazansky-Mitchell family is basically A-OK. 

At some point Hangman was a pilot under Mav’s command, while Bradley was under Ice’s command (this is technically possible as long as Mav and Ice never adopted Bradley legally, let’s just say Carol passed away after Bradley became a legal adult in this scenario), they were sent to Top Gun together, and their rivalry actually started from Ice and Mav wanting to have the pilot under their charge to be the winner lol (a bet is definitely involved).

Better yet, half the dagger team at some point was under Mav’s command while the other half at some point was under Ice’s command before he eventually became COMPACFLT, and they somehow have a friendly rivalry of sorts, with Hangman as the leader of Mav’s kids and Rooster as the leader of Ice’s kids (I mean, it kinda made sense if you consider how Hangman and Rooster fly). 

These 12 are basically best of the best at this point, considering who has trained them, so when the mission came, they all got called back to Top Gun, with Mav as their instructor.

Hangster definitely have that on-again, off-again relationship with sooo much UST, and with the rivalry between team Mavdad vs team Big Boss Ice, that special mission training would definitely be so much more fun lol.

Other head cannon in the “What If: Feral Admiral Mitchell” Universe:

After getting married, Adm Kazansky and Adm Mitchell kept their own name, cause, hyphenating their last name would be just too much trouble, although, in the privacy of their home, Mav would call Ice Admiral Mitchell-Kazansky, and Ice would call Mav Admiral Kazansky-Mitchell, and they would fight about which one sounds better (Bradley will not take any sides thank you very much).

There’s definitely a chat/support group for Adm Mitchell’s ex and current secretaries.

Maverick is crazy, but he’s good at his job, so basically all the higher ups just turn a blind eye as long as he gave them results, and then give him some form of punishments if he went a little too far, like maybe burying him in paperwork, forcing him to go to Navy Balls, and many other things that Mav would definitely hate.

When Mav pulled some crazy stunts that got him in danger or badly hurt, Ice would punish him by withholding sex and/or leaving to live in Hawaii for longer than necessary. But, as long as Mav is not hurt and the problem he caused is just properties damages or the likes, Ice will just let him be, Admiral Mitchell can go and clean up his own messes thank you very much.

In the beginning, people will go to Ice and complain when Mav causes trouble, but eventually they stop cause they realized that Ice actually love watching them suffer cause of his feral husband.

Anyway, that's all for now k bye