Navy
Recycling old AF stuff
This adds a bit to AW1Ed’s column of deploying assets on our southern flank. The Air Force is finding some love for assets many of you probably thought had gone away. U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has confirmed that U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes have been flying missions around the […]
Weekend updates – Texas
Once did a driving trip, hitting up the Buffalo Soldier’s monuments at Ft. Riley and Ft. Leavenworth, stopping at the Negro Leagues Museum and American Jazz museum and hitting the Harry Truman Library in Independence, MO. This may take a little longer…it’s Texas, y’all. Things are further apart. Here’s a few ideas: It’s official – […]
Sailor Screwed by Biden’s BATFE. BP Meds first.
Let’s go revisit a column from last year, June 16 to be exact. Friday short takes. In the comments section was this comment, which drew quite a few responses: “Sailor Sentenced To 20 years In Prison For Selling Illegal Machine Guns In Virginia” https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-06-15/navy-sailor-virginia-illegal-machine-guns-10450276.html “A 28-year-old Navy master-at-arms was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in […]
USS Truman CO Relieved
USS Truman (CVN-75) Navy relieves CO of USS Harry S. Truman following collision By Beth Sullivan The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the carrier Harry S. Truman on Thursday, one week after the carrier collided with a civilian merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, the service announced. Capt. Dave Snowden was relieved by Rear Adm. […]
Monday ‘splodeys
We know the GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator is a bunker buster you do NOT want to fall afoul of – 30,000 pounds of bananas explosive wrapped in a inch thick steel shell, it can penetrate far enough to ruin your day even if you think 200 feet is are far enough underground. But now it’s […]
USNA DEI Offices Closed
DEI Dies at Canoe U Naval Academy closing DEI offices to align with Trump executive orders: memo Staff at Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, also told to remove ‘gender-identifying pronouns’ from email signatures By Greg Norman The head of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, says the school is “taking steps to close all […]
Floaty Friday
We’ll start with a piece of good news. Darn near lost us a perfectly good handcar airplane back in November 2023. The plane in the scenario is an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 27, the pilot was coming in for a routine landing when one of the arresting wires […]
Valor Friday
Today’s Valor Friday piece is going to be cribbed from Navy Times. During the Korean War, Lt. j.g. John Koelsch, equipped with a promising new helicopter, dedicated his service to rescuing downed pilots. Koelsch’s most notable sortie ultimately cost him his life, but through his actions, the pilot he risked his life to save survived. […]
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