Navy
WWII nurse, age 106, donates bullet from husband’s heart to Pearl Harbor museum
A widow of a Pearl Harbor survivor has donated the bullet they removed from his heart after the attack to a museum. He successfully used the war wound to get the young Navy nurse to agree to a date with him (should he survive the surgery), and parlayed that into nearly 50 years of marriage […]
More service members being investigated for Kirk-related posts
The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are receiving more information regarding their service members’ comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The Army said that over a dozen Soldiers have been relieved of their duties pending investigation of their posts. The numbers of service members being investigated for their Charlie Kirk comments is […]
Four Star Awarded 6 Year Sentence for Bribery
Robert Burke Retired 4-star Navy admiral sentenced to 6 years for bribery plot By Michael Kunzelman A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job. Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke […]
Air Force scores longest AMRAAM kill
Raytheon announced that an F-22 Raptor from Eglin AFB equipped with AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) got a record-length kill late in 2024 over the Gulf of Mexico’s Gulf Range Complex. Details were not provided, but based on previous long-kill tests with AIM-12 Phoenix missiles at 120 to 134 miles, it sounds like […]
Midshipman and Cop kerfuffle during lockdown
Annapolis, the site of the United States Naval Academy, one of the country’s senior military colleges, was placed under a lockdown yesterday. It seems a former student was making threats electronically, which appeared to be coming from within the building. *cue spooky 70’s horror movie music* During this lockdown, the police prowled the building making sure […]
Good news and bad news
First, take a minute of silence – it’s September 11th and while many seem to have happened 24 years ago today, we at TAH have not and will not. Remember the immortal words of George Santayana – “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Moving on to more current things […]
Ronny Jackson gets his stars back
We talked about Congressman Ronny Jackson’s 2022 demotion when the news broke of it last year. He was demoted on the retired list to captain in light of a several years old investigation into a hostile work environment he was said to have fostered while serving as the White House Physician. With the change in […]
Saturday embarrassment
Luckily this is old enough that I am sure all the principal players have long since retired, if not died. Good thing, too. Back in the mid-’50s, the Navy was testing a new radar-guided air-to-air missile, the AIM-7 Sparrow. Targets were needed, so older prop planes were reconfigured as unmanned drones. We’re going to take […]
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