Easy folks — completely SFW here 😉 So Scribe — what exactly do they mean by a “Commander’s Moon” ? Well, strictly defined, a “commander’s moon” is: “A night lighting condition with clear skies and a large (late phase) moon, to provide optimum lighting condition for night flights, and especially night traps. Favored by, and…
A quick look at the sidebar will reveal a variety and number of books read over the course of the past year, oft times engendering discussions off-site as to selections and purpose. Looking at the current working stack on my desk, I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk to why these particular selections.  Understanding…
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall…
From the Fleet…around the world and always on watch. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and peace and prosperity in the new year to come. – Steeljaw Scribe
“AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT A DRILL” Seventy years ago those words ushered in a period of unbelievable agony, trial, effort and sacrifice. What was once before was forever changed afterward. Jack-booted thugs bent on their “Final Solution” strode cobblestone streets of the land distantly remembered as the forebear of a new nation,…
(*Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor) On this, the eve of the 70th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor… Â Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: <– Listen to the speech Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date…
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
I’ll be there — how about you? VAW 122 Alumni
I remember, a sky so blue it burned your eyes to look up . . .and smoke that scarred your lungs; I remember shipmates . . . and a piece of notebook paper listing for whom the bell had tolled; We remember that for one brief moment it wasn’t New Yorkers, or Washingtonians, or businessmen…
