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Monday ‘splodeys

| February 10, 2025 | 36 Comments
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 […]

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USNA DEI Offices Closed

| February 7, 2025 | 22 Comments
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 […]

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Floaty Friday

| February 7, 2025 | 13 Comments
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 […]

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Valor Friday

| January 24, 2025 | 7 Comments
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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Deep Army cuts to help support realigning towards Indo-Pacific region

| January 23, 2025 | 26 Comments
Deep Army cuts to help support realigning towards Indo-Pacific region

Austin Dahmer and Alexander Velez-Green are among Donald Trump’s defense advisors. Both are hawkish when it comes to dealing with China. Dahmer previously generated a report on how to help accomplish the Indo-Pacific strategy. He proposed $70 billion less for the Army each year. Together with other cuts, the Navy and Air Force would each […]

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Valor Friday

| January 17, 2025 | 15 Comments
Valor Friday

Last week, as we wrapped up the dramatic rescue of Bat 21, I discussed the Medal of Honor earning heroics of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Thomas Norris. Norris received the Medal of Honor from President Ford in 1976, after having initially refused the award. He was presented with the medal at a White House ceremony where […]

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Cruiser upgrades… oops.

| December 31, 2024 | 44 Comments
Cruiser upgrades… oops.

Gotta say, we seem to have a severe problem with our floating (sometimes) service’s building and acquisitions group. The Littoral Combat ship cluster, the extended refurbs in port – if you could ever find a legit headline about the Navy getting something done ahead of time and under budget in the last (what, GENERATION  or […]

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Two lost

| December 30, 2024 | 9 Comments
Two lost

  A bit back when we talked about Pearl Harbor vets, the source article said there were a total of 16 still left. Sadly, as of Christmas that number is down to 15. Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Upton’s Christmas Day death […]

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