Steeljaw Scribe

Twenty-four/seven. No phrase better describes life aboard a deployed carrier than 24/7. No matter the time of day, somewhere on the floating, restless city something is going on. Come April, PBS will air what looks to be an excellent 10-hr series of life aboard the Nimitz 4, filmed during the entirety of [...]

Southern drops another note from the sandbox this way - more time in Abu Dubai and, well, let’s just let him tell the story:

Well it has now been about four days since we pulled out yet again from Dubai. This time unlike last time we were allowed into town. I have included some shots of [...]

So - life as a Sailor in this modern Navy — you’ve caught glimpses here and at other spots like Lex’s, Pinch, and Yankee Sailor. But that’s the view from Officer Country. Southern logs in this week with some thoughts across a wide-range of topics from the enlisted POV. We’ve said it [...]

Deployed correspondent Southern Air Pirate drops in with another post from the Truman CSG with notes from the post-Christmas period, dust-up in the Straits and observations of trying to work orders deployed. We well remember the latter, especially back in the day when one’s tools consisted primarily of waiting until pulling into Naples to [...]

Mike (No Angst Zone 0) remains solidly stuck in EMCON courtesy Blogger and as such, has alternate posting privileges over here in the interim.  His latest submission is provided below and is the story of renowned ace, George Preddy. - SJS

 
"I’m sure as hell not a killer, but combat flying is like a game, and [...]

Greetings come today from our guest correspondent, Southern Air Pirate who is overseas with the Truman CSG which finds itself inport, Dubai, for the holiday.  As one who seemed to have consistently drawn the Christmas deployment card whilst on sea duty, herr Scribe can well relate to the ‘joys’ of a Christmas spent on the [...]

Mike (No Angst Zone) continues to have connectivity problems so we’re continuing in the Joint spirit to host his posts over here. - SJS
 
I’ve talked before over at my place   on a few occasions   about the USAF’s message or lack thereof.   Thus far it has ranged from moderately inspiring with tasteless and bland music to [...]