Steeljaw Scribe

OK folks - there’s our side:
 
…And, well, their’s…sitting around all pretty like static displays

Hmm, might be seein’ one of these again in the near future…just, sayin‘, you know…
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So - get a couple hundred bucks ahead and Team Zoomie starts feelin’ their oats? Laugh it up folks - here’s your future:

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(2 Nov Update)  Check it out — over 10% of the way there.  Thanks folks, but we still have a long way to go as yet.  And you know what?  It needn’t be a huge contribution (though those would certainly be welcomed too!).  Five dollars, ten - even twenty will go a long way because [...]

Mike over at No Angst Zone has picked up the gauntlet and dares to think the Junior Service can prevail. Ha! He even tries to resurrect that phony test off VA Capes. Remember that? The one where not only the targets were, well, you know, "fixed". Afterall, when they had to go against a real [...]

Received in the mail the other day:

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1253-07
October 26, 2007
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Navy Crew MIA From Vietnam War is Identified

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of five U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been accounted-for and will be [...]

Open challenge to Mike over at No Angst Zone — if Team USAF is ahead of Team Navy after the final reckoning on 11 Nov, then the following Friday (16 Nov), my Flightdeck Friday post will be devoted to a (gag) scummy, prissy, no *real* tailhookin’ USAF/USAAF/Air Corps plane, your choice. I’ll give it the [...]

“Support our Troops”

So says the ubiquitous magnetic sticker on yet another non-descript vehicle on the road up ahead – but one wonders if the driver/occupant knows of a program that directly, materially supports our troops in a life-changing way? That program would be Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops). 
The short story is Valour-IT, an [...]

Having read (and re-read) the new MS several times since its release, as well as the associated commentary, we offer the following thoughts (delayed, no thanks, due to the intrusion of our day job(s)…)
Some notes first – we will confess to being somewhat disappointed at first glance thinking to ourselves “where’s the beef?” Much of that [...]

Green deck - post your trackbacks here, and enjoy the flick!
 

Parts 2 & 3 below the fold
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Interesting development noted below in light of discussions about calling out China (or not) in context of new Maritime Strategy

Iran buys (sic) Israeli fighter jets
 
Iran has signed a contract with China for the delivery of two squadrons of J-10 fighter planes. The design was developed by Israel for its Air Force and then sold to [...]