Steeljaw Scribe

“We believe that preventing wars is as important as winning wars…(w)e will pursue an approach to deterrence that includes a credible and scalable ability to retaliate against aggressors conventionally, unconventionally, and with nuclear forces”
- A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, October 2007
“…(O)ne of the things that we were stressing is an area that [...]

Pausing for a moment to acknowledge this signatory event in VAW history before returning to the discussion on the MS later today… -SJS

1967: VAW-11 (West coast) and VAW-12 (East coast) constitute the two largest squadrons in the Navy with some 200 officers and 800 enlisted each.  Each squadrom supports 4 plane E-1B Tracer (better known [...]