Why I Miss Going to Sea…

BySteeljawscribe 7 November 2008

Flightdeck Friday — The Ties That Bind (II): Remembering Ned Geiger

BySteeljawscribe 23 March 201225 October 2014

Another Flightdeck Friday and sadly, another memorial – this time for another pillar of the E-2C Community, CAPT Edward C. Geiger, USN, ret. (“Ned”). Ned passed away suddenly earlier this week just as he was beginning to enjoy a well deserved retirement having wrapped up his post-Navy career. Services are tentatively slated for…

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Remembering Bluetail 601 – Four Years Later

BySteeljawscribe 31 March 2014

Real heroes – amazing, and humbling, in what they do.

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Holiday Lights – of a Different Kind

BySteeljawscribe 23 December 2013

Â While stationed in Norfolk (on active duty) one of our family traditions come Christmas was to head up to the Naval base after Christmas Eve service and take in the sights of the ships dressed out in holiday lighting. Â From sub to destroyer and big deck amphib and carrier, almost all were dressed out…

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Midway 70 Years Later and the Dauntless on My Desk

BySteeljawscribe 4 June 201230 August 2014

In every battle there is a moment when the combatants, and the world, seem to catch their breath. It is a fleeting moment, lost in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, everything changes. Such moments are borne of desperation, of courage, of plain dumb luck. But they are pivotal — for…

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Reflections: The Resurrection of BuNo 160992 (Part I)

BySteeljawscribe 23 October 200611 January 2015

SJS note: Aircraft, like cars, stoves, televisions and Tickle-Me-Elmo ®, are products of assembly lines some more massive than others, but the premise is still the same. Build a lot of something to set standards with common assemblies and a uniform product results. Except when it doesn’t. Every one of us who have slipped the…

What We’re Reading – And Why

BySteeljawscribe 26 December 2011

A quick look at the sidebar will reveal a variety and number of books read over the course of the past year, oft times engendering discussions off-site as to selections and purpose.Â Looking at the current working stack on my desk, I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk to why these particular selections. Â Understanding…

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Glenn M. Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET says:

9 November 2008 at 07:18

After 15 years I still do miss it. At times, terribly, because of the shipmates I had over the years. The noise of flight ops, the HCT-10 in my hydraulic shops on Ranger and Kitty Hawk, the Boatwain’s Pipe and on and on.
That funny looking trawler waiting off the VACapes. The Cape Henry Light coming over the horizon. Things like that. Yeah. I still miss it. Oh, how I do MISS IT.

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