Project Valour-IT: Team Navy
Fight’s on:
More info and to join Team Navy here:
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More to follow…
Fight’s on:
More info and to join Team Navy here:
and here:
More to follow…
If it’s Saturday, this must be Hong Kong…and time for another postcard from our deployed correspondent: SJS, So I am in one of my father’s favorite ports and a few of the old WestPac sailors favorite ports as well. Hong Kong. Home of fast action films, mainland Asian banking, and an every changing landscape. To…
USS Russell (DDG 59) underway for deployment. So what’s different about it? XO’s blogging ’bout it – you can follow via "The Destroyermen" link in the column to the right under "Navy Blogsphere" You also know him as the Yankee Sailor… bon chance y’all – it looks like it will be a most interesting deployment…
 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.  From sub to destroyer and big deck amphib and carrier, almost all were dressed out…
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…
Associated Press | May 23, 2007 TOKYO – The USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy’s oldest ship in full active service, embarked on its last major maneuvers Wednesday before being decommissioned next year. The 46-year-old vessel – the only American aircraft carrier permanently deployed abroad – eased out of its berth at the U.S. Navy…
I have held my peace for the past 24-hours as a kind of “counting to ten” mindful of one of blogging’s first principles regarding blogging while angry. Time’s up — I’m not angry, I’m royally POd. Still. “The selection of Gabrielle Giffords, designated LCS 10, honors the former Congresswoman from Tucson, Arizona, who is known…