A Christmas Videocard For You

BySteeljawscribe 15 December 200915 December 2009

From all the ink-stained wretches here, wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and safe and prosperous year to come:

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…

Reflections

Of Transitions and Enduring Gratitutde

BySteeljawscribe 3 April 200830 March 2010

Like Skippy-san, a fellow Citadel alumnus, I received the following in an email last night: Retiring Citadel faculty to be recognized April 17 Five members of The Citadel faculty will retire this academic year and will be recognized during the annual Faculty Recognition Luncheon April 17. Retiring faculty members, their departments and years of service…

Reflections

A Memorial Day Compendium – 2015 Edition

BySteeljawscribe 21 May 201521 May 2015

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us…

Reflections

Of Snow and Buffoonery Around the Beltway

BySteeljawscribe 16 December 201017 December 2010

(Actually was thinking of something that rhymes with mass-hattery, but we’re family friendly here – SJS) So – season’s first snow and coming midday like it did only portends ill…We were not disappointed. So much road, so much snow — so many idiots. But one in particular merited special attention as he went whizzing by,…

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Maybe a 5.9 on the Richter, But a 1.0 in Preparation

BySteeljawscribe 23 August 2011

Ten years ago, a couple of weeks from now, I emerged from a burning, shattered Pentagon to a scene of utter chaos in South Parking, jammed cell lines and what soon became a traffic jam bordering on the Apocalyptic. Today, while much further to the south of DC, but actually closer to the quake’s epicenter,…

Reflections

Of Radials and Cicadas

BySteeljawscribe 1 June 2013

Last couple of weeks we have been serenaded by Brood 2 offspring of the 1996 round of 17-year cicadas.Â With a background noise like a bad 50’s special effects soundtrack, they’ve been pretty constant but this weekend, overcome at times by the sound of Merlin and Wright piston engines as the CAF brought a P-51,…

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Santa says:

22 December 2009 at 02:39

Hello dude, nice site Happy Holidays!

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