Navy
Valor Friday
Last week I took a look at the final air-to-air dogfights of the European Theater in World War II. Today we’ll move to the other side of the world, only a few months later, for the final engagement in the sky over the Pacific Theater. The summer of 1945 had seen the Allies’ island hopping […]
More retiree fun
Let’s see, the Army says its pilots owe three more years before they can get out. The Navy has had issues with its retirement for physicians and dentists in its Reserves, causing them to have to do another 3 years as well. You would think that they had figuratively shot their respective wads at this […]
Navy Reservists anticipating retirement eligibility notified that they have another three years to go
Many Navy Reserve doctors and dentists had already made plans and arrangements with the expectation that they would be able to transfer from the ready reserve to the retired reserve. These Sailors felt that they had a special “fast track” deal where they were credited with up to four years of qualifying service. However, some […]
Friday Short Takes – Army/Navy shortfalls, Sludge Light down
Well, looks like the Army is not going to meet its recruiting goals yet again this year. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the service would fall short of its goal of 65,000 new recruits. The Army fell roughly 15,000 active-duty troops short of its goal last year of […]
Good girl on carrier
Who’s a good girl!? That lovely looking blonde is Sage, a 3 year old yellow lab who will become an official asset on board the Gerald R. Ford, and is a therapy dog on loan from Mutts With a Mission. Sage, a 3-year-old female yellow Labrador retriever, is the first dog to deploy with a […]
Joshua Kelley, Navy drag queen, leverages TikTok to aid Navy recruiting
Joshua Kelley, Yeoman 2nd Class (YN2), stated that he was a “Digital Ambassador” for the U.S. Navy. He happens to be a TikTok influencer. The Digital Ambassador program was an effort that the Navy utilized to try to leverage the Internet to reach potential applicants on behalf of Navy recruiting. Kelley claims to have done […]
Captain Royce Williams recounts his heroics over Korea
You might recall the tale of Royce Williams. I spoke about his incredible one-man fight to the death against a bunch of Soviet MiGs during the Korean War in a recent Valor Friday piece. Fox News has the man himself discussing the incident with the Soviet MiGs. It was so highly classified at the top […]
Overachiever finds yet one more way to overachieve
I talked about Silver Star recipient Jonny Kim a while back in a Valor Friday piece. Since then the man who enlisted into the Navy, became a SEAL, was decorated for valor in action, was commissioned an officer, became a medical doctor (from Harvard no less), and then became an astronaut has squeezed another extremely […]
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