The 2996 Project: Colin Arthur Bonnett
“Manners and a Motorcycle: In Memory of Colin Arthur Bonnett”< ?xml:namespace prefix = o /> Age: 39Residence: < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />New York, NY, United StatesOccupation: telecommunications programmer, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.Location: World Trade Center Colin Bonnett was a gentleman — a Harley-Davidson-riding, bodybuilder sort of gentleman. Born in Barbados, he had been…
Remembering Fallen Shipmates – Part II (N513)
(SJS: N513 is the Strategy & Concepts branch, part of the N51 Strategy & Policy Division of N3N5. N513’s personel were the folks who looked at “the big picture” focusing on warfighting concepts and maritime strategies in defense of the US and our Allied partners. This is the branch that in the past had worked…
Remembering Fallen Shipmates – Part I (N3N5)
Eternal Father, strong to save,Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,Who biddest the mighty ocean deepIts own appointed limits keep;Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,For those in peril on the sea! CAPT Gerry Decanto, USN, Navy Captain Gerald F. DeConto of < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Alexandria, Va., was killed during the terrorist…
Flightdeck Friday!
Ed note: Yes, it is early, but there are several other items on tap for the next few days, primary of which are a Reflections-series from Sept 11, 2001 beginning Friday and the planned memorial observance for this coming Monday. So, presented herewith is Flightdeck Friday — a day (or two) early… North American XFJ-1/FJ-1…
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…
Another Dip in the Pool of Hypocrisy
In line with this article from earlier this summer, (ed: note especially the part about CAIR’s initiative being praised in going a long way toward improving the image of Islam and Muslims, which has been ‘badly dented in part due to the events of Sept. 11, 2001’ ), the Hypocritic Excuses Machine ™ is cranking…
Look What Slithered Out from Under the Rock…
In case you missed it yesterday, the American al Qaeda Adam Gadahn, home-grown convert to Islamofacism, loosed a video that talks to jihad in America. Now some have likened him to Lord Haw Haw, noted buffoon and erstwhile propogandist of WWII fame. I, on the other hand, think he is more of the Goebbels mode…
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….