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VA Announces ‘Veterans Pride’ Initiative
Will be interested to see how this plays out — similar initiative to have vets salute during the playing of the National Anthem vice placing hand over heart hasn’t seen much participation, ‘least from YHS’ observation. On another note — light blogging this weekend as YHS is off to a friend’s retirement in Norfolk tomorrow…
The Onion’s Take on NORK’s ‘Achievement’
N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP Remains Of Country’s Economy Sent Deep Into Earth’s Core October 18, 2006 | Issue 42•42 PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—A press release issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency Monday confirmed that the Oct. 9 underground nuclear test in North Korea’s Yanggang province successfully exploded the communist nation’s total…
TINS* Tuesday
(comes the time in most every Hawkeye flier’s experience when they have to deal face-to-face with the hydraulic failure demon. The Hawkeye has two hydraulic systems — one to drive the flight controls and another to drive the “auxiliary gear” which includes such minor items as landing gear, brakes, etc. In the event of a…
Flightdeck Friday!
Well, a little different this week — Happy 231st Birthday Navy!
Fallout from NORK’s Nuclear Test
Amidst the angst and hyperbole following the NORK’s (failed) nuclear test, comes the first real fallout — another “state” seeking its rightful place among the larger and more established residents in the blogosphere… Announcement of Glorious Nuclear Achievement to Gangster Stooges of BlogosphereGlorious Launch of the People In the back yard of scientific researchings behind…
TINS* Tuesday
(SJS: From the Able Dog website — the story may have taken place in 1950, but I have a sneaking suspiscion that there are more than one of us who can readily identify with some parts herein…oh, and the hearing test we all *so* love to do with each annual physical, especially in our, um,…
Flightdeck Friday — The History of AEW (cont’d)
Project Cadillac (Part III) 1050L 24 Oct 1944. USS St. Lo (CVE-63) is under heavy air attack. After successfully fending off the superior surface force of VADM Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, “Taffy 3†is now defending against a surprise air attack that has lasted some 40 minutes already. One of the features of this attack…
10th Nimitz-class Christened
(Washington Post 8 Oct 06) NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 7 — Despite a steady downpour that chilled thousands gathered Saturday in the shipyard here, President Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, basked in the warm embrace of extended family and friends as they celebrated the christening of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier named after the former…
Flightdeck Friday — The History of AEW (cont’d)
Project Cadillac (Part II) Project Cadillac was more than just a program to develop radar – it would develop an entire AEW system. Radar, IFF, relay equipment, shipboard receivers, and airborne platform. Such an undertaking would be ambitious enough in peacetime, at the height of a critical stage in the war it bordered on a…