TINS* Tuesday

(*This Is No S**t — the typical preamble to an upcoming sea story which is true — no kidding!)TINS Tuesday (there’s that aliterative twist again) will be a weekly feature wherein your humble scribe will pass along stories from Navy air (and occasionally other services) that have been printed at one time or another and…

Boola, boola … Successful Missile Defense test

As a former Hawkeye kind of guy, missile shoots were always one of the more fun things to participate in, especially when the target gets nailed and blown to smithereens (destruction of the target characterized w/voice call: “boola-boola”). ’twas fun in uniform and (despite all the surrounding angst in the run-up) it still is post-uniform….