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Project Valour-IT: It’s not just for Marines or Soldiers…(UPDATE)
(2 Nov Update) Check it out — over 10% of the way there. Thanks folks, but we still have a long way to go as yet. And you know what? It needn’t be a huge contribution (though those would certainly be welcomed too!). Five dollars, ten – even twenty will go a long way…
They Call the Wind Maria…
Away out here they got a name For rain and wind and fire The rain is Tess, the fire Joe, And they call the wind Maria Maria blows the stars around And sends the clouds a’flyin’ Maria makes the mountains sound Like folks were up there dying – ‘Maria‘Â from Paint Your Wagon Growing up…
TINS* Tuesday: Riderless Horse
Reveille came early at 0400 for the A-7B pilots of a light attack squadron deployed aboard an attack carrier. Briefing was scheduled at 0445 with the first launch at 0600. Two of the four scheduled Corsair II’s completed the launch and, after the mission was completed, returned for an IFR recovery. The two pilots separated…
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…
Tunnel of Love (not)…
Those of us who spent anytime in Hampton Roads became intimately familiar with the “joys” of two significant landmarks – the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the more recent cousin, the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel. The HRBT, as it is called in polite company, is the link from Norfolk to the Peninsula, unless, of course,…
Cold Iron
(h/t Russian Navy Blog) Cold iron – that time in a shipyard when the ship is completely dependant on shore-based services; electricity, water, steam, etc. as the plant (conventional or nuclear) is shut down. Of course, as is wont to be the case, that which is brought on from shore typically falls short of demand on…

