Navy
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 […]
VJ Day with a twist
Gonna talk today about Ray and Ellie Williams. Coupla kids who were both in the Navy, met, fell in love, and four month later decided to tie the noose knot and enter in the state of holy deadlock wedlock. So they set the date, August 15th. The very day they made their nuptials, Japan […]
Jim Lovell dies, age 97
Another of my childhood heroes has passed on to his eternal reward. Even if you didn’t follow the Space Race, you’ve probably heard of Jim Lovell. He was the commander of Apollo 13, and was played by Tom Hanks in the movie about their near death experience on the way to the moon. Before Apollo […]
US recruiters used CCP-controlled app to pitch to Chinese nationals
Some US recruiters have utilized WeChat to target Chinese nationals for military service. WeChat is monitored by the Chinese government. Navy Recruiting Station Alhambra, in California, had a bulletin board with recent recruits. Most of them had “China” as their hometowns. Two Chinese nationals took photographs of the bulletin board and sent them to China’s […]
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