Forty-Six Years Ago — A New Age Took Wing…
The W2F-1 Hawkeye (later re-designated YE-2) first took flight on 21 October 1960.
We’ve come a long way to this (E-2C Hawkeye 2000)
The W2F-1 Hawkeye (later re-designated YE-2) first took flight on 21 October 1960.
We’ve come a long way to this (E-2C Hawkeye 2000)
While your faithful scribe does not hail from the VP community, he still nonetheless has spent time in Kef (and has the arrested field landings to prove it), most notably when E-2Cs replaced E-3’s during the late 1980-spring ’81 timeframe. ’twill be the subject of a future “Reflections.” Last U.S. Servicemembers to Leave Iceland Sept….
The phrase "assassin’s mace" is the English translation of "shashou jiang," a term of ancient Chinese strategy. "Shashou jiang" was a club with which the "assassin" incapacitated his enemy, suddenly and totally, instead of fighting him according to "the rules." To summarize from Part I – a Chinese strike using Theater BM’s has been conducted…
( For all who chipped either effort or money or both at the fund drive for Valour-IT, this is the result of your dedication to supporting our troops and, in this case, the sailors in particular.) Eight Sailors injured SANTA RITA, Guam (Dec. 1, 2006) – Eight Sailors assigned to the repair ship USS Frank…
At its root it is all about resources — protein to supplement meager domestic harvests and oil to drive economies that governments push to unnatural and unsustainable annual growth. It is about an emergent regional power, poised on the brink of asserting itself as something more, flexing new-found muscle in new domains and deepening…
Your humble scribe is on travel this week, gov’mint business and all, out in the land of real mountains. Posting may or may not be spotty (non-specific enough? There’s plausible deniability for you), so here are a couple of items from around the blogsphere to chew on. Fear not, Flightdeck Friday is not in jeopardy……
“Are you a turtle?” I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.- Wally Schirra Born into an aviator family (his father had gone to Canada during WW1 to earn his wings and his mom…