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Flightdeck Friday: Smoke and the Battle of Midway

Checking in from the SJS-family’s TAD site this weekend (and yes, we still are in the pre-internet age back at the homeport, still awaiting the service visit by the provider…), where the lead Scriblet is tying the matrimonial knot (and once again, the weather-guessers appear to be winning as we contemplate low ceilings and fits [...] [...]

history lessons

The Solomons Campaign: Cactus Air Force and the Bismarck Sea

Thus far, and not surprisingly so, the conversation has focused on the naval forces – afloat and ashore, at work in the Solomons. Today we go a wee bit joint and talk about land-based air and its contribution. We are all (or should be) pretty familiar with the inter-service rivalry that sprung up pre-war between [...] [...]

Navy

Postcards from Deployment: Portcall, Singapore

Checking in from deployment, Charles passes a review of one of Skippy-san’s most favorite locations in the Far East – Singapore (we’ll let Skippy wax eloquent on the joys therein on the comments if he’s of such a mind and can tear himself away from an ongoing email war ) And “ship’s liaison group”  instead [...] [...]

Admin

SITREP

Light posting for a bit over the next few days as we shift our pennant from the two bedroom apartment we have shared with SWMBO and two college-age kids to the new digs.  In between, it’s another DITY move.  Provided fortune smiles upon us (read: the internet provider doesn’t goober up the connection), we should [...] [...]

history lessons

The Solomons Campaign: THE BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL, Part II

Guest writer Chuck Hill joins us this week with Part II of his detailed write-up on the surface action off Guadalcanal in November 1942.  Lots of lessons to be applied to today (see the roll-up at the end).  BTW – whilst composing this submission he became a grandfather, so we lift a major league ‘mazal [...] [...]

9/11 Remembered

The 2996 Project: CAPT Bob Dolan, USN (Pentagon) and Mr. Colin Arthur Bonnett (WTC)

“We Remember…” With those two, simple and profound words, an extraordinary project was launched three years ago — 2006. Prior to the observance of the 5th anniversary of the attacks by Islamist terrorists on the US, a private citizen had an extraordinary idea of how to memorialize those who were lost. Bringing together members of [...] [...]

Reflections

A Prayer Request — for a Prayer Warrior

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. – Matthew  17:20 Sarah is one of those altogether rare folk that aptly fit the description “prayer warrior.”  In the almost seven years [...] [...]

Navy

Postcards from Deployment: Deployment Stress

One of the reasons we went with the ‘Postcards from deployment…’ feature a couple of years ago was to bring an unvarnished look at deployments from a sailor’s POV that doesn’t always make it to the light of day, except in rare fora like the “Carrier” series late last year. Charles touches on something everyone [...] [...]

history lessons

The Solomons Campaign: THE BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL, Part I

Guest blogger Chuck Hill checks in with the first of two parts of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (12-13 November).  We are less than a month out from the attack at Pearl Harbor and Allied forces are on the move – in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  But so too are [...] [...]