Implementing the Maritime Strategy: New Naval Operating Concept (NOC) to be Written

Sometimes vindication comes quietly – as, say, a couple of years later in part of an interview and provides demonstrative proof that there is a core group that ‘gets it’: “In a Nov. 15 interview with ITN, Morgan said that when Navy officials wrote the NOC in 2006 “we knew we were doing the process…

Executing the Maritime Strategy: 2 Amphibs En Route To Bangladesh After Cyclone

  Forward Presence; Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (ASSOCIATED PRESS 18 NOV 07) WASHINGTON – The White House offered condolences Saturday evening to victims of a deadly cyclone in Bangladesh and said the U.S. government has provided an initial $2.1 million in emergency relief aide. A statement from press secretary Dana Perino said the amphibious…

Trying Something New

Given our predilection to trying new things around here (as opposed to say, oh, the local pro-football team)  we’re trying out a new PDF embed and share process from Adobe called, surprisingly enough, SHARE.  Of course it is in beta, so it may or may not work.  If it does, what you will see below…

Flightdeck Friday: Valour-IT Challenge Edition – The B-58 Hustler

 At the start of the ’07 Valour-IT Challenge fundraiser, we exhanged an offline challenge (and yes, a few snarks too…) with Mike over at team Air Force, the gist of which was whomever showed up Rocket Last (aka Tail-end Charlie) would host an article on the plane of the other team’s choosing – here as…