“And Now For Something Completely Different…”
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat:
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Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat:
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…timeless…
…and a peak into the Scribe’s household…
… and other Beltway phenomena aptly defined:
I’ll be there — how about you? VAW 122 Alumni
So – a very good discussion on Midrats yesterday that included a look at China’s maritime claims in the ECS/SCS and regional responses – which of late have seen a ratcheting up of forces in the area. In the wake of that discussion, I came across the illustration below:    of a cover for a…
23 July 1947: VF-17A becomes the Navy’s first all-jet squadron with the initial delivery of 2 x FD-1 Phantoms at NAS Quonset Point, RI and the era of props on carriers begins to close. This followed by a year, the first carrier ops of a jet with a FD-1 onboard USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Taking subsequent…
At Marne, the industrial warfare hinted at barely half a century earlier came to fruition. On a sunny, December morning, the rules of naval warfare were inexorably altered and four years later was answered in the light of a terrible, new weapon, one that its creator was prompted to utter “I am become death, the…