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Strategy Documents
NSS, NDS, NOC, NMS, MS – there is a veritable alpha-bit soup of documents out there and trying to make heads or tails of them individually or their relationship to one another. In trying to make sense of this morass, some few years ago we carved out substantive portions of our day to develop a…
Monday’s Reading
Eagle1’s Sunday Ship History narrative this week covers the marriage of ships and radar, opening with a cautionary tale. Mike returns from a prolonged EMCON A period (courtesy Blogger) with a fine post commenting on the Japanese Coast Guard via an article in International Security, and along the way laments the lack of direction his selected…
Arbitrary and Capricious – DoD Agencies Website Blocking
It has come to our attention that certain DoD agencies have instituted blocking software that blocks this site and several other milbloggers from being viewed in the workplace. Amongst the casualties of this policy are Eagle1, Far East Cynic, Boston Maggie, Black Five and OP-For. Sites that are generally DoD friendly(yes, including Skippy). Sites, some…
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) Commissioned
11,000 tons gross displacement. 622.5 ft long. 45 aircraft – that was the USS San Jacinto (CVL 30). Sixty-five years ago, on a September morning, a young naval aviator launched his Grumman TBF Avenger from her deck on a mission to strike facilities at Chi Chi Jima. Forty-five years later he was raising his hand,…
EMCON Charlie
Back out to the front range of the Rockies this week and again, most of it to be spent in a windowless building for a major conference. Ergo – limited posting this week. Flightdeck Friday will be a bit different and in preparation for that, would like for all to think about what they would…