Navy
Valor Friday
In my studies on the topic of military valor, I’ve become acquainted with the various awards issued by our allies, or at least their top-level decorations. I’ve become quite familiar with the British (and by extension Commonwealth) awards and decorations. The British system is complex, with both civil and military medals as well as other […]
Quick update down South
As we have been hearing, the current administration is taking a MUCH harder stance on South American drug smugglers. To date, 20 drug smuggling boats (so they say) have been sunk. The attack brings the total number of people killed by the US military’s strikes on the alleged drug boats to 80. CNN has reported […]
Valor Friday
Submarines played a pivotal role in World War I, the first conflict in which subs were in wide use by multiple combatants. While World War I proved the submarine was a viable type of warship, World War II would see even more wide use of the type. Germany was the most prolific user of subs […]
No more magnetic catapults?
Think this may be an off the cuff comment, rather than a serious statement? President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an executive order that would compel the U.S. Navy to use steam-powered catapults and hydraulic elevators on new aircraft carriers. Trump has railed against the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) catapults and […]
Jessie Mahaffey, USS Oklahoma survivor, passes
Not sure how we may have missed this at the time, but Jessie A. Mahaffey, a seaman on the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, passed May 1 at the age of 102. Mahaffey joined the Navy in the summer of 1941 after graduating high school in Louisiana. After attending boot camp in San Diego, […]
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 […]
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