Speaking of Ethos and Fighting Spirit…
Try eleven battle stars in eleven years…
Endicott
Try eleven battle stars in eleven years…
Endicott
“Be modest about what military force can accomplish, and what technology can accomplish. The advances in precision, sensor, information and satellite technology have led to extraordinary gains in what the U.S. military can do…But also never neglect the psychological, cultural, political, and human dimensions of warfare, which is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain. Be skeptical…
There is, afterall, a certain degree of symmetry to things… NORFOLK, Virginia (April 7, 2008) USS George Washington (CVN 73) prepares to depart Naval Station Norfolk. George Washington is departing Norfolk as her homeport for the last time, and will transit to her new homeport of Yokosuka, Japan. George Washington will replace USS Kitty Hawk…
(BBC – 6 Oct 08)Â China cancels US military contact: China has cancelled military and diplomatic exchanges with the US in protest at a $6.5bn deal to supply Taiwan with arms, US officials say. A number of senior level visits and military-to-military exchanges due before November would not go ahead, the US defence department said….
File this under “Getting It Right”: IMMEDIATE RELEASE   No. 352-12 May 07, 2012 Secretary of The Navy Announces DDG 116 to be Named Thomas Hudner Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (DDG) will be named the USS Thomas Hudner. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a naval…
08:16 Local, 6 August 1945
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Just read the entire story. Remarkable….and included one of my heros, John Bulkeley.