Navy
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 […]
Last WWII ace, 103, dead August 14
Our last WWII ace pilot has left us. Donald McPherson served as a Navy fighter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the Pacific theater, where he engaged Japanese forces during the final years of the war. He earned the Congressional Gold Medal and three Distinguished Flying Crosses for his service. McPherson was listed […]
Dreamcatcher: U.S. Navy Door Gunner in Somalia
The folks at MilitaryPhony.com send us their work on this Wesley Wade Washoe fellow, who claims to have been a U.S. Navy door gunner (yes, a door gunner), a veteran of the Gulf War and Somalia, and SEAL dreamer extraordinaire. Meet Wesley Wade Washoe, his city’s own military fiction novelist, age 54 and still workshopping […]
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