Hitting the Big Silver-Winged bird for a part of the country without ready access to the UNCLAS ‘net. Fear not – we’ve some articles queued up for the next few days, including a Flightdeck Friday, until we return a few days hence.
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…and no, sigh, not *that* kind of silver-winged bird, alas…
OK, so why all of a sudden all the posts with Coral Sea playing a significant role? Well, in part, because YHS was once a Seabat (VAW-127) and participated in her decom (along w/CVW-13 and eventually the ‘Bats themselves). In part because the Coral Maru had a personality all her own, decidedly more raw-edged than…
Update 19 July 2008 Come to find out a few new bits of information – like the fact that Capt. Mauldin was a graduate of The Citadel (Class of ’44). The tribute to Air Force Capt. William K. Mauldin came 56 years late. But that Friday’s moving funeral service here came at all is a…
(Courtesy Chap)
Some things just turn out, well, naturally … You Should Drive a Ford Shelby Mustang Cobra You have an extreme need for speed, even when you’re not in a hurry.And while your flying by, you don’t want to look like every other car on the road! What 2007 Car Should You Drive?
For those not so inclined to leap with both feet into the full Appropriations Bills (regular, continuing and sustaining minus the funds for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan), here is a Congressional Research Service study of current Defense Authorization and Appropriations bills with analysis of some of the more important parts (like shipbuilding – pg…
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A long time ago(1975) I watched an EC-121 taxi past the stop lights at NAS Norfolk. The taxiway from the VAQ-33 line had to cross one of the major roads on NAS. It was at night and all here taxi/landing lights were on. What an amazing sight!!!!