Navy
Saturday Shorts. Happy Birthday, Army? Ya don’t look a day over 150!
Gonna jump right in. Ft. Banning Moore Whatever that fort off of Victory Dive in Columbus is doing some upgrading. The Army is updating its sniper training range at Fort Benning, Georgia to accommodate its newest sniper rifle, which can accurately hit targets nearly a mile away. The MK22 Precision Sniper Rifle is a multi-caliber […]
Ships to be renamed, too
We saw thebesig’s article on the formerly-Confederate-named-now Union-named-posts to be renamed to their original names (so Benning will go from Benning, ignoring Moore*, back to being named for the original Benning) – if only we could harness all the energy of politicians’ desires to waste money on stupid stuff like this, we’d never need another […]
The Epic Tale of Philip “Rear Admiral Fantasy” Larimer II
The Epic Tale of Philip “Rear Admiral Fantasy” Larimer II Or… How to Sink Your Own Ship Without Ever Serving The fine, upstanding folks at MilitaryPhony sent us their work on this Philip Dexter Larimer II fella. Meet Philip Dexter Larimer II, a 48-year-old Kansas man who apparently watched one too many Navy movies and […]
Valor Friday
Recently, the keel for a guided missile destroyer was laid down. This future US Navy ship is being named USS Quentin Walsh. DDG-132 is named not for a US Navy hero, but rather a Coastie. Though admittedly, the US Coast Guard was under the Navy Department at the time of his particular noteworthy heroics, as […]
SECDEF to rename USNS Harvy Milk
T-AO-206 Defense Secretary Orders Renaming of USNS Harvey Milk Amid DEI Policy Changes Mike Schuler Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the U.S. Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206), a John Lewis-class fleet oiler that was delivered to the Navy in 2023, according to multiple media reports citing U.S. Defense officials. This […]
Tuesday shorts
You thought vaccine disputes were over, right? Not in the Navy! Amanda Johnson, a Marine spouse and homeschooling mother of five with a set of twins and a newborn is speaking out after months of what she calls stonewalling by the U.S. military medical establishment. Her family’s upcoming move abroad has been put on hold […]
Kim watches new Nork warship fall off drydock
Whoopsie. Someone let a new ship fall off the drydock in North Korea. This happened in front of the country’s oppressive leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter Ju Ae (who he is apparently grooming to be the country’s next leader). There’s gonna be some North Korean shipyard workers that will be sleepless as […]
Another Hornet in Davy Jones’ Locker
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea By Konstantin Toropin The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday — the third since it deployed to the Middle East — this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense […]
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