Sea, Sky, Land: Images From Around the Fleet
Today’s theme: clouds & light – nature’s & man’s…
Today’s theme: clouds & light – nature’s & man’s…
The Editorial Board of the USNI enters the fight in a major way: The independence of the Institute is paramount; without that openness, the Institute risks simply becoming an organ of whatever entity, whatever program, is deemed permissible by only a few, whomever those may be. It would be difficult to find a member or…
Crossing the Line. The boisterous ceremonies of “crossing the line” are ancient and their derivation is lost. It is well known that ceremonies took place long ago when the ship crossed the thirtieth parallel, and also when going through the Straits of Gibraltar. Early ceremonies were rough and to a great extent supposed to try…
More from Norman Polmar on the USNI: THE NAVAL INSTITUTE IN CRISIS Dear Friends and Colleagues, As you know, the Board of Directors–for now–has withdrawn the proposed change to the mission statement that would have made the Naval Institute an advocacy organization. Unfortunately, the battle is not over. The majority of the Board still seeks…
Third ship of the Forrestal-class CVA’s – the first supercarriers . . . Veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm, Southern Watch and Restore Hope . . . Last ship to bear the storied name, Ranger, that began with John Paul Jones . . . Decommissioned in 1993 as part of the post-Cold War rush to…
Go ahead, admit it – the habit dies hard. Before every summer you swear that you are finally going to read “—” and by golly, this is the summer to do it. Well, Labor Day is a mere 20-days away and I’ll bet you’ve barely put a dent in the reading list. Fear not however,…
SJS, Since the last post card not much else has changed out here. We are just approaching the International date line again. So soon we are going to repeat a day to catch up for the day we jumped over about eight months ago. So in preparation (or as a cruel joke) one of the…
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Well, there went my “ride.” I picked here up in Puerto Mont, Chile on UNITAS XXIV in Sep 83. She was to be the only SPRU CAN retained and was to be a museum in the Great Lakes, but late last year that went out the window. An entire class of 963s will become ship reefs, despite being the backbone of the Fleet to end the Cold War. My first real curise wearing commissioned officer rank was in the company of USS SPRUANCE (DD-963) to the Med, where she had her maiden voyage.
Commissioned 984, shook Ross Perot’s hand (he was Bill Leftwich’s roommate at USNA) during the Commissioning party. She’s a fish reef NE of the big island of Hawaii, like the rest of the class. Maybe FOSTER will survive her test ship days and be the last one standing for the history of it all.
Well — it beats how one of mine ended up :/
– SJS
Sea, Sky, Land: Images From Around the Fleet « Steeljaw Scribe very nice great article thank you…