Project Valour-IT: Team Navy

Fight’s on:
More info and to join Team Navy here:
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and here:
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Fight’s on:
More info and to join Team Navy here:
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and here:
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More to follow…
There’s requests that are general in nature — and then there’s targeted requests. The latter are often specific, meet an urgent need and require short turnaround. This is a targeted request. The details are over at Maggie’s Place, but here’s the thumbnail sketch. Marines brought in from the field with serious injuries (usually traumatic brain…
♫♬…When the Drone is Called Up Yonder I’ll be There…♬♫ (with apologies to James M. Black) 😀 First the news and a congratulatory note to the Navy-Industry team behind today’s launch of the X-47B off the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77): Of course, as any end-of-deployment flyoff crew knows, it is a heck of…
` Join us for Midrats this Sunday, 22 July 2012 on blogtalk radio, where the topic is missiles – ballistic and cruise; and your humble scribe is the guest. Seven months into this year and we have seen much on this front. Pick a theater and you will find ballistic and cruise missiles are at…
OK Gang — looks like Team Army finally had the reserve forces join tem and have taken the lead by over $9K. Time to man up, pony up and take the lead back. Remember, its all fr a good cause and every little bit helps. – SJS 25 Nov 1961: The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft…
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…
June 5th: ” In every battle there is a moment when the combatants, and the world, seem to catch their breath. It is a fleeting moment, lost in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, everything changes. Such moments are borne of desperation, of courage, of plain dumb luck. But they are…