Navy
Updates, Tax Day style
Have a few updates for the TAH world. Remember Zachary Young? He is the Navy vet who was excoriated on CNN for ‘running a black-market smuggling operation and gouging poor Afghan refugees’. That little bit of journalistic, shall we say impromptuism (okay, they bent the truth far past its breaking point), caused them to settle […]
NYC Helicopter Crash
Let’s talk about the dramatic and tragic helicopter crash in NYC yesterday. A Bell 206 (a venerable, long-serving airframe in both military and civil applications) appears to have broke apart over the Hudson River while flying what seems like a routine tourist flight. Juan Browne (aka Blancolirio) over on YouTube has a video on it […]
Navy vet passes on
Saw the obits for this man, and I have to admit I was bound by childhood prejudices – just did not think of him as someone who put in his time and did his bit. I was reading through comments on his passing, and someone mentioned “when I lived in San Diego in 1975, some […]
Recycling old AF stuff
This adds a bit to AW1Ed’s column of deploying assets on our southern flank. The Air Force is finding some love for assets many of you probably thought had gone away. U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has confirmed that U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes have been flying missions around the […]
Weekend updates – Texas
Once did a driving trip, hitting up the Buffalo Soldier’s monuments at Ft. Riley and Ft. Leavenworth, stopping at the Negro Leagues Museum and American Jazz museum and hitting the Harry Truman Library in Independence, MO. This may take a little longer…it’s Texas, y’all. Things are further apart. Here’s a few ideas: It’s official – […]
Sailor Screwed by Biden’s BATFE. BP Meds first.
Let’s go revisit a column from last year, June 16 to be exact. Friday short takes. In the comments section was this comment, which drew quite a few responses: “Sailor Sentenced To 20 years In Prison For Selling Illegal Machine Guns In Virginia” https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2023-06-15/navy-sailor-virginia-illegal-machine-guns-10450276.html “A 28-year-old Navy master-at-arms was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in […]
USS Truman CO Relieved
USS Truman (CVN-75) Navy relieves CO of USS Harry S. Truman following collision By Beth Sullivan The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the carrier Harry S. Truman on Thursday, one week after the carrier collided with a civilian merchant vessel in the Mediterranean, the service announced. Capt. Dave Snowden was relieved by Rear Adm. […]
Monday ‘splodeys
We know the GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator is a bunker buster you do NOT want to fall afoul of – 30,000 pounds of bananas explosive wrapped in a inch thick steel shell, it can penetrate far enough to ruin your day even if you think 200 feet is are far enough underground. But now it’s […]
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