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Welcome Aboard to RememberedSky.com
The latest to join the milbog/aviation ‘verse is RememberedSky.com – brought to you by a former Crusader/Corsair II naval aviator with 170 combat missions in the A-7 over Vietnam while flying off the USS Midway in the 1972-73 timeframe. Consider one of the more recent posts: All days come from one day, as the writer,…
ex-USS Ray (DD 971) To Be Sunk During RIMPAC ’08
Now you see her… Soon, you won’t: Familiar Destroyer Will Be Sunk In Naval Exercises (KITSAP SUN 25 JUN 08) … Ed Friedrich Frequent drivers along Sinclair Inlet are probably wondering what happened to the big Navy ship that used to be moored in the bay. That was the destroyer David R. Ray, and it…
Witness to History: The INF Treaty 20 Years Later
The clock in 1987 If you are any kind of student of national security policy and haven’t familiarized yourself with George Washington University’s excellent National Security Archives project, you really need to do so. Case in point is their latest project, the release of previously secret Soviet Politburo records and declassified American transcripts of…
Back to the Future: LRO Images Apollo 11’s Landing Site
Apropos that on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, the latest US visitor and (hopefully) precursor to our return via the Constellation program, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the location in Mare Tranquilis that was the site of Apollo 11’s landing (click on image to enlarge): Note the object…
Steeljaws Airborne Again?
Arriving in the mail today — the E-2D IOT&E patch. IOT&E (Initial Operational Test & Evaluation) is a critical milestone event for the E-2D program. Conducted by VX-1, operating out of Pax River, IOT&E provides an opportunity to test the aircraft and weapons system in a more dynamic environment than what was present for developmental…
Another Cold War Closeout
While your faithful scribe does not hail from the VP community, he still nonetheless has spent time in Kef (and has the arrested field landings to prove it), most notably when E-2Cs replaced E-3’s during the late 1980-spring ’81 timeframe. ’twill be the subject of a future “Reflections.” Last U.S. Servicemembers to Leave Iceland Sept….