<p>In case you didn't see the posting on the Air Force thread, here are links to some pictures of the jet painted by USNA exchange students at USAFA. </p>
<p>Wonder if West Point has some blue and yellow tanks in its future?</p>
<p>thanks for sharing- gotta love those Mids! And such a neat job- not a drop of paint on the ground! Heard they did as good a job cleaning it all up too! Nice to see Navy Pride alive and well, even if it is up in sky country! And while I don't remember seeing any tanks at West Point (maybe I missed them!) from what I remember the Mids did a surpurb job on the supe's house....where "GO NAVY BEAT ARMY" was plain as day for all to see! Just hope they do as good a job guarding the goat before the game!</p>
<p>haha...score one for Navy. they should've painted the toilets too.</p>
<p>HA! HA! HA! HA! I love Mids!</p>
<p>thats an amazing paint job.</p>
<p>what I want to know is, where did they find all that blue paint?</p>
<p>it was most likely provided by air force cadets who wanted to go navy but weren't accepted into USNA, so they went air force instead so as to not taint their records with west point.</p>
<p>vcm2007:</p>
<p>Hope you're only applying to USNA. Trash talking the other academies could look bad on applications to other academies.</p>
<p>I am sure the Navy Academy exchange students at Air Force will have the good sportsmanship and good sense not to gloat over their football victory this weekend - NOT !!!</p>
<p>but its friendly rivalry! after all and in the end, we're all on the same team.</p>
<p>i trash talk ALL the academies cept naval!</p>
<p>THANK YOU dhy322!</p>
<p>this appeared today on USNA's website- </p>
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<p>THE ANNAPOLIS CAPITAL OCTOBER 6, 2005 PG. A1</p>
<p>Mids pull off daring prank in heart of wild blue yonder</p>
<p>By Earl Kelly, Staff Writer </p>
<p>Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force
An Air Force walks by a vintage plane painted to resemble a Navy Blue Angels jet.</p>
<p>A dozen midshipmen earned the grudging respect of the Air Force Academy by repainting a jet fighter on the Colorado academy's grounds blue and gold, and labeling it with "Navy" and "Blue Angels."
The mids, who are studying there this semester as part of an exchange program, pulled off the prank sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning, in advance of Saturday's Navy-Air Force football game in Annapolis.</p>
<p>"This jet is in the center of cadet life," Air Force Academy spokesman John Van Winkle said yesterday. "You cannot be a cadet at the academy and not notice that plane."</p>
<p>The F-4D Phantom fighter, which downed six enemy MiGs in the Vietnam War, is in the middle of the Air Force Academy's assembly area, surrounded by dormitories, a classroom building and the campus chapel. Mr. Van Winkle said. It is normally painted tan and green.</p>
<p>"They have created a little bit of a legacy," Mr. Van Winkle said of the visiting midshipmen.</p>
<p>A Naval Academy spokesman was laughing when he discussed the incident.</p>
<p>"Good on 'em," Cmdr. Rod Gibbons said yesterday of the pranksters.</p>
<p>Mr. Van Winkle offered the Naval Academy some friendly advice:</p>
<p>"Be sure to ask the Navy people about the brass goat statute - just to see if anything happened there," he said of the statute that stands inside Gate 1.</p>
<p>Naval Academy spokesman Judy Campbell said this morning that 20 Air Force cadets are studying in Annapolis this semester, but they have not retaliated. Yet.</p>
<p>"Not at this point, we haven't had any pranks played," Ms. Campbell said. "But it's still not Saturday."</p>
<p>The hoaxes, sometimes called "spirit missions," are all in good fun. The only rules are that the pranks do no permanent damage, and must be cleaned up the following day. In this case, the mids wisely used coloring that washed off the Air Force plane.</p>
<p>Mids in past years have painted things such as "Go Navy!" on a wall at the Air Force Academy, and West Point cadets painted a Ranger insignia on a roof another year but nobody has ever performed a stunt of this magnitude, Mr. Van Winkle said.</p>
<p>The whole rivalry is about the Commander-in-Chief Trophy, awarded each year to the academy that wins the most inter-service football games.</p>
<p>Navy has won it the past two seasons, but Air Force has won it 22 times to Navy's 11 since the trophy was created in 1972. Navy goes into Saturday's game with a season record of 1-2, and Air Force with a 2-3 record, but Navy is a 1 point favorite because of home-field advantage.</p>
<p>Navy may have lost its edge over Air Force in May, when its star fullback graduated.</p>
<p>"We will see about the Commander-in-Chief Trophy," Mr. Van Winkle said. "That thing was here for seven years in a row. Then, Kyle Eckel came along. He just tore us up. Now, we're glad he's gone."</p>
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<p>well, we all know the outcome of this story!</p>
<p>vcm2007: "so they went air force instead so as to not taint their records with west point."</p>
<p>Everyone knows that West Point is the most highly regarded and most historic academy. If one is serious about serving their country, they consider all the academies not just navy and air force. Next time think before you speak.</p>
<p>jq722...</p>
<p>it's friendly rivalry...i love all the academies with all my heart...</p>
<p>but i apologize anyways</p>
<p>sorry</p>
<p>vcm is just kidding dont be so hard on him jeeze</p>
<p>honestly...</p>
<p>I wasn't being hard on him, i just advised to think before he speaks. I apologize if it came off that way but it was a pretty lame comment.</p>
<p>"my momma always said that stupid is as stupid does..."</p>
<p>sorry, just had to put that quote in since it was the first thing that came to mind.</p>
<p>im sure i wasn't the only one to think of how i put it, but anyways, im sorry</p>
<p>You sunk my battleship.</p>