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Project Valour-IT: Calling Out The Junior Service
OK, guess it’s throw down time – time to get some skin in this challenge…Spirit of Attack and all Open challenge to Mike over at No Angst Zone – if Team USAF is ahead of Team Navy after the final reckoning on Thanksgiving, then the following Friday (5 Dec), my Flightdeck Friday post will be…
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Have at it…
Forty-Six Years Ago Today…
15 November 1960. The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) deployed from Charleston, SC with a load-out of 16 UGM-67 Polaris A-1s on the first strategic deterrence patrol. The first US nuclear-powered submarine armed with long-range ballistic missiles, the GW was ordered on 31 December 1957, with orders to convert two attack submarine hulls to missile-carrying FBM…
Sunday With Calvin
…and a peak into the Scribe’s household…
“To Provide for the Common Defense…”
“So when all else fails, when all the negotiations have broken down, when there is a missile in the air, you have to have the ability to destroy it. Because the only other ability you would have is to apologize to the relatives of those who died.” — —
Consultancy…
… and other Beltway phenomena aptly defined:

