Navy
Tuesday shorts
You thought vaccine disputes were over, right? Not in the Navy! Amanda Johnson, a Marine spouse and homeschooling mother of five with a set of twins and a newborn is speaking out after months of what she calls stonewalling by the U.S. military medical establishment. Her family’s upcoming move abroad has been put on hold […]
Kim watches new Nork warship fall off drydock
Whoopsie. Someone let a new ship fall off the drydock in North Korea. This happened in front of the country’s oppressive leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter Ju Ae (who he is apparently grooming to be the country’s next leader). There’s gonna be some North Korean shipyard workers that will be sleepless as […]
Another Hornet in Davy Jones’ Locker
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea By Konstantin Toropin The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday — the third since it deployed to the Middle East — this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense […]
Valor Friday
I’ve several times talked about men and women of valor who have received decorations from allied governments. Sometimes, as in the case of recipients of the top valor awards (such as a Medal of Honor or the Victoria Cross), these foreign decorations are nearly automatic. For example, virtually every Medal of Honor recipient in the […]
Splash One Hornet Pt 2
USS Truman US Navy sinks $60 million jet in Red Sea while avoiding Houthi attack Story by DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier after the carrier made a hard turn to avoid a […]
Splash One Hornet
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Navy Super Hornet falls overboard as USS Harry Truman makes hard turn during Houthi attack The aircraft was being towed when the crew lost control of the Super Hornet. Both the plane and the tow tractor fell overboard. Jeff Schogol A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet and a tow tractor fell […]
Habemus Papam!
Habemus Papam! (We have a Pope!) – well, not really. No doubt all the Church potentates will See (sorry) their way to name a new Holy Father in due time. What we got here is even rarer – it looks like the Navy has finally found a mission for which the Littoral Combat Ships – […]
Dominican Republic 1965
JeffLPH sends – this was the USS Okinawa ‘Family Newsletter’ from 15 May 1965. May not ring bells with many of you, but we got ourselves briefly involved in another hot spot then, half-way around the world from Vietnam. He notes that the deployment went so rapidly that they had trucks piling up on the […]
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