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Enough politics?
Well, tough. Today is updates. First up – Molly Kaptur of Ohio (a D) just won re-election for the 22nd time. I suspect she thinks of the House as a relatively low-stress job, as she has only introduced a whopping 5 bills in 41 years. (Ironically, the same number as of bills Trump has signed […]
Dominican Republic 1965
JeffLPH sends – this was the USS Okinawa ‘Family Newsletter’ from 15 May 1965. May not ring bells with many of you, but we got ourselves briefly involved in another hot spot then, half-way around the world from Vietnam. He notes that the deployment went so rapidly that they had trucks piling up on the […]
Not so critical
Back in 2021, the Navy said that adding hypersonic missiles to its weapons mix was urgent at critical: The service previously described it as a critical capability that needed to be fielded before 2030. Four years later….apparently it isn’t really. The U.S. Navy has halted plans to acquire an air-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship cruise […]
Vaughn Drake Jr. died, age 106
Probably asking yourself “Who is Vaughn Drake”? I was…and then found he was believed to be the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor extant. Not a huge surprise at 106; that age stands out in almost any crowd. Vaughn Drake Jr., an esteemed Central Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack on Pearl […]
The Sea Devil
Imagine the scion of a noble military family, with such a history that the French dedicated the ‘Marseillaise’ to one of them. Maybe also imagine a bit of a wild child, who saw a cruise ship menu and ran off to sea at age 13… on a Russian tramp schooner. (You know THAT was a […]
Let’s pile it on
Dunno about you, but I have a depressed area on my upper left arm. Bet most of you fellow old farts do, too. It’s those damn vaccinations! The smallpox vaccine created a small reaction within the recipient’s body which showed their body was immunized and that the vaccine was working. Good thing, too, because other […]
Combat Arms Physical Requirements Review Ordered
SECDEF “For far too long, we allowed standards to slip, with different standards for men and women in combat arms. That’s not acceptable.” SECDEF Hegseth Hegseth orders review of physical standards for military combat roles By Leo Shane III Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday ordered a 60-day review of military combat arms standards to […]
Four US Troops lost
Four US troops went missing during training at the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area near Pabrade, north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania. The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry division, were sent to recover another Army vehicle early Tuesday. U.S. and Lithuanian personnel were still working Thursday to recover four missing U.S. soldiers whose […]
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