Entries from November 2007
Dogs finish 7-4, score the most points ever vs. VMI and Silver Shako remains in Charleston - for yet another year…plus we were able to catch it on TV. Yeah, it was a good Saturday, though probably not so for others 0. Maybe next year guys - umm, no.
Rumor has it the VMI [...]
Tags: The Citadel
So comes that time of year when we are prompted to render thanks. While some hew to a generic form thereof, others would like to be more direct in their thanks, delivering same directly to someone at the pointy end, as it were. Well, you’re in luck. Over the next several days we will be [...]
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Sometimes vindication comes quietly – as, say, a couple of years later in part of an interview and provides demonstrative proof that there is a core group that ‘gets it’:
“In a Nov. 15 interview with ITN, Morgan said that when Navy officials wrote the NOC in 2006 “we knew we were doing the process [...]
Tags: Naval Operating Concept · Naval Strategic Plan · Navy · NOC · NSP · The Maritime Strategy
Forward Presence; Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response
(ASSOCIATED PRESS 18 NOV 07) WASHINGTON - The White House offered condolences Saturday evening to victims of a deadly cyclone in Bangladesh and said the U.S. government has provided an initial $2.1 million in emergency relief aide. A statement from press secretary Dana Perino said the amphibious assault ship [...]
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The Snowglobe from h311 … Give it a shake
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November 19th, 1969:
115:22:16 Conrad: (As he lands) Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me. (Pause)
[Jones - "I understand that there was a bet on your saying that."]
[Bean - "Who'd you bet?"]
[Conrad - "You know who I bet."]
[Bean - "Nope. I [...]
Tags: Apollo 12 · moon · space
Given our predilection to trying new things around here (as opposed to say, oh, the local pro-football team) we’re trying out a new PDF embed and share process from Adobe called, surprisingly enough, SHARE. Of course it is in beta, so it may or may not work. If it does, what you will see below [...]
Tags: China · CSB · weapons in space
At the start of the ‘07 Valour-IT Challenge fundraiser, we exhanged an offline challenge (and yes, a few snarks too…) with Mike over at team Air Force, the gist of which was whomever showed up Rocket Last (aka Tail-end Charlie) would host an article on the plane of the other team’s choosing - here as [...]
Tags: B-58 Hustler · Flightdeck Friday · Valour-IT
We note with bemused interest the fact that we have crossed the "1,000 spam comments blocked" threshold - the last 500 of which appear to have been passed our way during the course of the Valour-IT competition. Hmmm… Oh, and standby - Flightdeck Friday will be up today and we promise it will be worth [...]
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As some of you are aware, Southern Air Pirate has departed on his 6-month deployment and so postings on his site may be few/far between due to bandwidth and PC access. We’ve offered our services as an intermediary - and so this first missive (actually a combination of two) from SAP.
Haze grey and underway [...]
Tags: life at sea · postcards · Southern Air Pirate · Underway