SF Castro Blue Angels (#0060)

I was in San Francisco during Fleet Week, an event that always seems rather odd there. Though San Francisco has a long history of heavy military presence, that presence diminished significantly with the Base Realignment and Closure process of the late 1980’s. The closing of a majority of the bases, along with the long history of anti-war sentiment in SF, makes it seem very incongruous to be celebrating Fleet Week there – but they do.

Here’s the Navy Blue Angels flying team, almost directly overhead -- taken from Seward Mini Park in the Castro.