Navy
Another old girl leaves home
The USS New Jersey left her home in Camden, New Jersey headed to Paulsboro for repairs. Thence, the most decorated battleship in Naval history will be ‘balanced for dry dock’ at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The vessel, guided by tugboats, docked at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal on Thursday afternoon, where it will be balanced to […]
Another of the last Pearl Harbor survivors passes
Richard C. “Dick” Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died, a family member said Wednesday. Mr. Higgins passed Tuesday, March 19th in Bend,Oregon at the age of 102. Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes based at the Hawaii naval base […]
USS Boxer still working up to deploy three years on
The Boxer is an amphibious assault craft, which essentially makes it a “small” aircraft carrier (843 feet long!) which not only can carry the usual Harriers, F-35s, and choppers, but good-sized air-cushion landing craft to rapidly deploy Marines as well. These are the odd-looking Wasp-class ships with the lower landing wells, effectively giving them […]
Monday Miscellaneous
A few little things today. Remember all the Afghans who helped us over 20 years in Afghanistan before Biden cut and run before we pulled out like a trucker from a 16 year old hooker before we mostly peacefully evacuated our troops and equipment? Seems we are running out of visas…67,000 of them in the […]
The Navy wants to privatize barracks
Navy installations in the Hampton Roads area are facing a maintenance backlog challenge. To help address the challenge, privatizing of barracks upkeep and maintenance is being considered. The Navy feels that with over two decades of experience with privatized family housing management, lessons learned from these experiences can be applied to privatized barracks. From WHRO: […]
Texas back in the water
No, I don’t mean Friday’s rain (although we got 3″ in as any hours. Typical Texas weather – drought or toadfloater.) Nope, the grand old lady , formerly of the Houston Ship Chanel, the USS Texas (BB35) has left her dry dock and is headed for the balance of her refitting in Galveston. She was […]
Ronny Jackson lied about being an admiral?
Most readers here will be familiar with Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-TX). Before he was elected to Congress in 2020 he was the 1st Chief Medical Advisor to the President (Trump), was Physician to the President (Obama and Trump), and worked in the White House medical office since the mid-2000s (GW Bush and Obama). As a […]
Ospreys back in action
We all know the V-22 Osprey – the hybrid helicopter tilt-rotor airplane mix which has taken over local airlift for the Marines and some of the Air Force. Not sure which air machine I have done more articles on, the V-22 or the F-35, but it has to be fairly close. Services may be heaving […]
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