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I’m not sure there really is a lighter side or humor to be had when 4321 Americans die in one 24 hour period. That’s over one 9-11 each day for the last week. And here, even as I write this, there are deranged idiots out, doing the bidding of some
Continue readingThe news was pretty well saturated over the last couple of weeks. What with Charlottesville, the firing ( well-deserved) of Steve Bannon, the collision of USS John McCain and President Trumps incredibly tone-deaf responses to all of those happenings, you may not have had a chance to notice this little tidbit
Continue readingWhile I was back in the Whining States of America, I made the obligatory run to Barnes and Noble. I picked up a copy of the Federalist to re-read, my original copy having gone long by the boards when the ex trashed all of my things as was her worthless
Continue readingThere is a post up over at the USNI blog that really kind of made me angry. It's a good post, well written-but it's based on a flawed premise. Here I will set out to explain why. Ever since the Navy came out with its completely assinine policy about breathalyzers
Continue readingAnother place to put your money: Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: Thanks for the downgrade, you should all be fired. Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker, who woke up last night with
Continue readingOne of the biggest PR mistakes the Navy ever made was to take part in the filming of the Final Countdown in 1980. I streamed the movie tonight on Netflix-I was really suprised they had it available for streaming. For those who are not so long in the tooth-The Final
Continue readingWhile looking around for the previous post-look what I stumbled onto on the US Navy’s web site. What’s wrong with this picture? The Carrier Air Wing The typical air wing aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier usually contains four FA-18 squadrons, one S-3 squadron, one EA-6B squadron, one E-2C squadron,
Continue readingThe mighty war hummer on the job. For once the Norfolk media drove in some other direction than towards Oceana. To visit the working man’s Navy. Be sure and make your Air Force friends watch this-the smaller, much more capable version of the AWACS:
Continue readingLow fly by’s. Most of them are by Brits and French-what’s up with that?
Continue readingYou can see a long way. Greetings from Tucson! Out here for work. Flying into the city yesterday was actually very interesting. The flight was full and I was in a window seat. Between sleeping and getting about 1/3 of the way through The Singapore Grip, I did not look
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