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The Best Four-Letter Word

S-O-L-D (Barely 30 days on the market – thanks Pat, Susan and Valerie, you guys rock!) It’s been a hectic month;  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 [...] [...]

history lessons

A Little Common Sense

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine Sphere: Related Content [...]

9/11 Remembered

The Price of Freedom?

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, [...] [...]

Geopolitics

China’s Military Power – 2009 Report

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 [...] [...]

Reflections

Remembering – Bear Ace 603

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 [...] [...]

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Painting With Sheep

This is just too cool… Kinda like coordinating a JS 136 (thems that know, know) Sphere: Related Content [...]

Air Warfare

Boeing Unveils the F-15SE ‘Silent Eagle’

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, [...] [...]

Flightdeck Friday

Coming Down the Pike

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, [...] [...]

Reflections

Time Passages: VAW-122 (1 April 1967 – 14 March 1996)

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 Sphere: Related Content [...]