S-O-L-D (Barely 30 days on the market – thanks Pat, Susan and Valerie, you guys rock!) It’s been a hectic month;Â between a decidedly ramped up optempo at work, courtesy our North Asia buds, writing and submitting the BMD chapter for a forthcoming book and putting the house on the market. Did we mention that…
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine
Remember 9/11? Remember the loss of the WTC and 2,750 workers, firemen, policemen and first responders? Remember how in the shattered concrete and twisted steel of the aftermath we swore to rebuild in the same place something that would defy the evil that brought the towers down? And how we called it Freedom Tower? Well,…
Those dinosaurs amongst us remember them from another age – the ghostly lines that arced out from the geopolitical heartland of the Soviet Union. Head east from Norfolk or west from Pearl or San Diego and you’d trip the first one, established by the orbiting EORSAT and RORSATs, pricking interest in command centers back in…
Paul Gallagher, fellow VAW alum, dropped by a short bit ago to pass along a remembrance of one of the crews we lost in the early ’90s. See, one of the hallmarks of the E-2/C-2 is the (still) relatively low mishap rate. Mishaps, and in particular, mishaps that result in the loss of some or…
This is just too cool… Kinda like coordinating a JS 136 (thems that know, know)
So — too long a wait list for the F-35? Got a “speak to the hand” when you queried as to the possibility of an F-22? Super Hornet too much like a rental Camry than a leased Bimmer for your tastes? Well, the good folks at Boeing have just the ride for you: ST. LOUIS,…
Lots going on right now – between events in North Asia, a one family attempt to stimulate the local construction economy and completing the first round of writing/editing for the BMD chapter for the book project there hasn’t been a lot of time to post. Still, there are a couple of irons in the fire,…
Final log entry for the Steeljaws: “My pennant is hauled down and stored. All records are in order. Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO is hereby disestablished on this 14th day of March in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred Ninety Six” (signed) Commanding
Referenced article here. From Ria Novosti comes news today that this time ’round, the DPRK gets it…sort of: North Korea has informed Russia that it has signed up to an international treaty and convention on space, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Thursday. “The Foreign Ministry of Russia, being a depositary state, received on…
