Navy
Here comes the Trump-class battleship
I’m not sure if this is a legitimate plan, or if Trump is once more trolling people. Could be both. Yesterday President Trump announced his plan to immediately start construction of two (with several more to follow) “Trump-class” battleships. They’re promised to be “the fastest, the biggest and by far, 100 times more powerful.” From […]
Ira Schab, Pearl Harbor survivor, passes
Ira Schab, 105: originally a tuba player in the USS Dobbin’s band, died Saturday. The 21-year old (born July 4, 1920) Mr. Schab expected a quiet Sunday morning. One of his two younger brothers, assigned to a nearby Naval radio station, was coming to visit. Schab had just showered and donned a clean uniform when […]
Monday – what?
Seemed a quiet weekend to me – dunno what my neighbor spread on his farm last week but it got dust ALL OVER every vehicle, so my main project was determining their original colors via washing. Mission accomplished – but you know, with a stock of clean cars, torrential rain has gotta be on the […]
US group rescues “Most wanted woman”
Seems there was a bit of unannounced drama associated with the Nobel Peace Prize presentation in October. As we know, the prize went to the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, Marina Corina Machado. She herself was unable to attend at the time. The lady is very much in demand with Venezuela’s Maduro regime – on […]
Army – Navy Game Today
Let me see…my family has always been Army. I was Army. But in fairness, we have had Navy in the family – a since-divorced jerk brother-in-law, in-laws – well, let’s just say I am not conflicted over whom to cheer for. (In fairness, my Navy in-laws are good folks. But they ain’t Army.) The game […]
Royce Williams may get MoH
This coming year’s National Defense Authorization Act has an authorization within it to upgrade Royce Williams’ Navy Cross to the MoH for his one-man battle with several Soviet MiGs during the Korean War. I wrote about him, back here. Since that original article, his Silver Star has been upgraded to a Navy Cross. Were Captain […]
WWII Native vets pass
Been a bit of a rough week in the WWII vet community. After all, anyone remaining has to be at or beyond the 100 year mark, so while not surprising, it’s still sad. Won’t be too long until we go from ‘the last survivor of his unit/ship to ‘last survivor. There is an exception […]
Wednesday Short Takes
Clearing up some confusion – the strife over striking the two survivors of the September drug smugglers’ attack continues. If, like me, you remember reading of two survivors from an earlier attack being repatriated, OR getting killed in a follow-on strike – which was it? Oct. 16: The U.S. military struck a semisubmersible vessel suspected […]
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