Steeljaw Scribe

It began with a letter, you know - the old fashioned kind, paper and pen, that opened with “You don’t know me but we have a mutual friend…”

From there it grew - a whirlwind relationship with precious moments snatched between squadron dets, workups and deployments.  We found the end of one path and the start [...]

Something a little different for Flightdeck Friday this Memorial day weekend. We are working on a project that if luck holds out, we should be able to post over the weekend, provided we don’t have to make an unbidden trip that lurks around the corner…if so, we’ll roll that project to the 4th of [...]

“…everybody’s going to make it.” - Thomas K. Jones, 1982
Counterveil vs. Countervalue…
Decapitating strikes…
Winning a protracted nuclear war…
Nuclear calculus…
These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980’s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval Postgraduate School.  Leading the [...]

Old days  
Good times I remember
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasures
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday  (Chicago)

(Nimitz intercept pics)

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With the recent press of the Soviet Russian carrier group coming out of hibernation for a Med sortie, we thought it was about time for another Reflections series - this time finding our gallant scribe back at sea after his first shore tour at Naval Postgrad School.  This time he is on a second sea [...]

The Playing Field
In his far off conscious he heard it – the incessant ringing of the phone on the bulkhead. Not just any ring either – more like a loud clattering and right now it was the most annoying sound intruding into his world. Wearily, he rolled out of the top bunk, carefully avoiding the [...]

This is the conclusion of the 4-part series. Parts 1-3 may be found by following the links in the margin on the left.

“Alpha Whiskey, Alpha Romeo, Tango One. Tango One recommends launching all available alert. Multiple bogeys inbound. Break, track 1231 now non-squawker, negative Mode 4, investigating with 9B. Setting station 9B with 11B”
“Alpha Whiskey, [...]