Navy
Saturday Shorts
Some of you older fellas here remember the aftermath of when Osama bin Laden was finally terminated – seemed the SEALs involved spent years blowing their own horns about it, right? Reminded me of the old Cold War line that “the difference between classified information and common knowledge is that common knowledge is harder to […]
Let’s talk Carrier Friday
The Harry S. Truman (yes, it should be Harry S Truman but the Navy thinks otherwise) is the 8th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the series. Who knew she was going to be immortalized and sunk multiple times. Huh? It’s pretty safe to say that our relations with Russia are a tad strained in the last […]
Steve Robinson, SEAL and stolen valor warrior, passes away
Snake noted the recent passing of a friend in the stolen valor community. Steve Robinson has passed at the age of 75. Snake worked with him on a few phony SEAL cases. Steve was the OG outer of fake SEALs in the days before Don Shipley brought his glorious hair and sardonic wit into the […]
A Tale of Two…
It was the best of time, it was the worst of times. That’s the opener to “A Tale of Two Cities”, widely cited as one of the greatest opening lines in history, along with “Call me Ishmael!” and a few others.* We’re gonna tell a tale of two programs. Too short a column for […]
New Toys for the New Year
Happy New Year, all! A few new things in the world of weapons. The Chinese Jui Tian drone “mothership” we wrote about earlier in the year took its frist test flights this month. The massive remotely piloted jet carries up to 100 drones, which it can launch while airborne to reach faraway targets. Able to […]
Here comes the Trump-class battleship
I’m not sure if this is a legitimate plan, or if Trump is once more trolling people. Could be both. Yesterday President Trump announced his plan to immediately start construction of two (with several more to follow) “Trump-class” battleships. They’re promised to be “the fastest, the biggest and by far, 100 times more powerful.” From […]
Ira Schab, Pearl Harbor survivor, passes
Ira Schab, 105: originally a tuba player in the USS Dobbin’s band, died Saturday. The 21-year old (born July 4, 1920) Mr. Schab expected a quiet Sunday morning. One of his two younger brothers, assigned to a nearby Naval radio station, was coming to visit. Schab had just showered and donned a clean uniform when […]
Monday – what?
Seemed a quiet weekend to me – dunno what my neighbor spread on his farm last week but it got dust ALL OVER every vehicle, so my main project was determining their original colors via washing. Mission accomplished – but you know, with a stock of clean cars, torrential rain has gotta be on the […]
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