Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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There’s Professionals…

January 7th, 2008 No Comments

…and then there’s the jackasses.  The crews of the USS Port Royal, USS Hopper and USS Ingraham clearly showed they were on the side of the professionals,  The IRGN?  Well, here’s an extract from today’s press conference with ADM Cosgriff (C5F/NAVCENT):
 

Q     Sir, Jonathan Karl with ABC News. A couple of quick things. One, the Iranian Foreign [...]

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Raptors’ Thanksgiving Intercept of Tu-95 Bears

January 7th, 2008 2 Comments

While there aren’t any official photos out of the 22 Nov sunset intercept, there are a couple homemade ones floating around the ’sphere - like these courtesy AW&ST’s Ares blog   (subscription maybe required).  No shots w/Bears - yet:

Word is the package was a couple of Raptors, a tanker (natch) and an AWACS.  Do you see what we [...]

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