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Entries from November 2007

Citadel 70 VMI 28 (updated)

November 21st, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Giving Thanks (Pt I)

November 20th, 2007 No Comments

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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Implementing the Maritime Strategy: New Naval Operating Concept (NOC) to be Written

November 20th, 2007 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Executing the Maritime Strategy: 2 Amphibs En Route To Bangladesh After Cyclone

November 20th, 2007 2 Comments

 
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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Fun things for the Season (I)

November 19th, 2007 No Comments

The Snowglobe from h311 … Give it a shake  

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“…that may have been a small one for Neil…”

November 19th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Trying Something New

November 18th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

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Flightdeck Friday: Valour-IT Challenge Edition - The B-58 Hustler

November 16th, 2007 16 Comments

 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 [...]

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A Milestone…Of Sorts

November 16th, 2007 No Comments

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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Postcards from Deployment

November 14th, 2007 7 Comments

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 [...]

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