Saturday Matinee: Rings Around Rabaul

BySteeljawscribe 27 June 200927 June 2009

Setting the stage for the Solomon Islands Campaign project which kicks off next month…and what better way than with the classic, Victory at Sea:

Air Warfare | Navy

Fleet Forces Command Flies E-2D Advanced Hawkeye With VAW-120
BySteeljawscribe 5 May 2011

…And then writes about it. This past week I spent a day with the â€œGreyhawksâ€ of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron ONE TWO ZERO (VAW-120) â€“ the Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) for Hawkeye and Greyhound aircraft. As an FRP squadron, VAW-120 is tasked with training pilots, naval flight officers (NFOs), and aircrew and maintenance personnel…

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Navy

Progress – However You Measure It
BySteeljawscribe 1 August 2010

Couple of items of note form the past week re. the future fleet: VAW-120 Receives First Fleet E-2D Advanced Hawkeye NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) — The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, the Navy’s newest airborne early warning and control aircraft, was delivered to the fleet July 29 at Naval Station Norfolk.Â Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations,…

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Geopolitics | history lessons

The Missiles of Summer – Updated
BySteeljawscribe 8 July 20089 July 2008

“War Is The Unfolding of Miscalculations” That quote, attributed to author Barbara Tuchman, is generally ascribed to the events that ran up to the First World War. However, it, along with other illuminating principles such as the Rule of Unintended Consequences find a wider, and sadly, more common range of applications including those events presently…

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Navy

Project Valour-IT: Team Navy
BySteeljawscribe 1 July 20111 July 2011

Fight’s on: More info and to join Team Navy here: and here: More to follow…

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history lessons

Flightdeck Friday: A Family Remembers a Father, Naval Officer and Former Vigilante B/N
BySteeljawscribe 15 April 2010

A few days back I received a very nice note regarding an earlier Flightdeck Friday whose subject, the A5A Vigilante, is a favorite of mine.Â Â Now, having been frustrated upon checking into VT-10 (ahem, many years ago) to learn that I’d missed the last class allowed to go Vigi’s, any story about Vigi’s will make…

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history lessons | Reflections

USS Bonefish – 21 Years Later
BySteeljawscribe 24 April 200923 April 2009

Every so often, we as seagoers are reminded that the mundane may rapidly transform into the perilous, even without a human enemy. Such moments can bring out the best and worst in our nature. Twenty-one years ago today routine operations onboard the USS Bonefish (SS-582) and USS Carr (FFG 52) uderwent such a change. A…

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