Sunday Matinee: “Don’t Kill Your Friends”

BySteeljawscribe 28 March 2010

Generally speaking — good advice.Â Doubly so where guns, planes and, well, Dilbert are concerned.Â See for yourself…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlYThSozzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cmVZoMo-cw

R.I.P. for the Royal Navy?

BySteeljawscribe 17 January 200728 March 2010

Have been reading Ian Toll’s Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy during my recent travels. Very interesting read of not just the construction and operation of these ships, the most famous of course being Constitution, but also of the founding of the Navy as a cabinet-level service with a…

Air Warfare | Flightdeck Friday | history lessons | Naval Aviation Centenary | Nuclear weapons

Naval Aviation Centennial: Neptune’s Atomic Trident (1950)

BySteeljawscribe 6 February 20118 February 2011

7 Feb 1950: In a demonstration of carrier long-range attack capabilities, a P2V-3C Neptune, with Commander Thomas Robinson in command, took off from Franklin D. Roosevelt off Jacksonville, Fla., and flew over Charleston, S.C., the Bahamas, the Panama Canal, up the coast of Central America and over Mexico to land next day at the Municipal…

Air Warfare | Flightdeck Friday | history lessons | Navy

Project CADILLAC: The Beginning of AEW in the US Navy

BySteeljawscribe 6 October 20106 October 2010

Project CADILLAC (Part I) Ed note: Everything has a beginning and that beginning is usually quite humble compared to present conditions.Â Consider, a small spring at the headwaters of the Madison River in Montana is the source of the mighty Missouri River which itself empties into ol’ man river — the Mississippi, all of which…

Air Warfare | history lessons | Joint Warfare | Maritime Strategy | Navy

The Doolittle Raid – 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning

BySteeljawscribe 17 April 201218 April 2015

Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over. Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…

Flightdeck Friday | history lessons | Reflections

Of Heritage and Advanced Hawkeyes

BySteeljawscribe 25 October 2015

“Hawkeye, Ball…” Since the E-2A went to sea in the early 1960’s, “Hawkeye” was the name used for the ball call to the LSOs. Later iterations of the E-2C continued that practice but distinguished the a/c type by markings on the nose (a white “II” for Group 2 E-2s, or a “+” for H2Ks today)….

history lessons | Navy

When Does Advocacy Become Lobbying…

BySteeljawscribe 25 February 201128 February 2011

…and dissent become heterodoxy? As noted previously, the USNI Board of Directors is asking the membership to approve a new mission statement that changes “the Mission of the Naval Institute to ‘advocating the necessity of global seapower.’” because “The Board believes that the United States must support and maintain a strong, global naval capability and…

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