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Postcards from Deployment: “Strange FOD”

SJS, From our ship’s newspaper though the folks back home might get a laugh out of this: Sailors Rescue a Nocturnal Creature MC3 Damian Martinez When the words foreign object debris (FOD) come to mind the last thing someone thinks about is an owl. On the morning of March 17 on board USS Harry S. [...] [...]

Reflections

Behold! The Empty Tomb…

He Is Risen 1. Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the [...] [...]

Reflections

Ecce Homo; Ecce Agnus Dei

I will be taking time off between now and Sunday to meditate on and celebrate this, the most holy of seasons for Christendom. I encourage you to take the time, reflect on Christ’s Mission and Sacrifice and what it promises for you. To aid in that endeavor for you, the progress of His Passion, as [...] [...]

history lessons

The Crucible: USS Franklin – 19 March 1945

Fifth ship of the Essex-class CVs.  Fifth ship named for Benjamin Franklin… The date – 19 March 1945.  Area of operations – fifty miles off the coast of Japan.  Flight ops have been underway since before dawn, beginning with a strike against Honshu and another against shipping in Kobe harbor.  On the flight deck, aircraft [...] [...]

space

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE: 16 Dec 1917 – 19 Mar 2008

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. – Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951 Radar specialist, scientist, visonary and author.  One of the great pillars [...] [...]

Navy

Postcards From Deployment: “This is a Drill, This is a Drill …”

(ed. Online Damage Control school/library here. – SJS) SJS, So it has been a couple of days since we pulled back out of our home away from home. I know, I know, I was just there; but the powers to be decided to vary our sked up so we showed back up. Spent the time [...] [...]

history lessons

Vanguard 1: Fifty Years Later

    Requirement: 1) place a satellite in orbit during the IGY; 2) accomplish a scientific experiment in orbit; 3) track the satellite and ensure its attainment of orbit.  Because of an ongoing classified program to put reconnaissance satellites in orbit (Project WS-117 using Air Force Thor MRBM’s – which later became the Korona-series of reconnaissance [...] [...]

history lessons

Weekend Matinee: USS Oriskany Retrospective

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history lessons

“If there are enough shovels to go around…”

“…everybody’s going to make it.” – Thomas K. Jones, 1982 Counterveil vs. Countervalue… Decapitating strikes… Winning a protracted nuclear war… Nuclear calculus… These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980′s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval [...] [...]