Christmas Lights – Navy Style

BySteeljawscribe 18 December 2011

From the Fleet…around the world and always on watch.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and peace and prosperity in the new year to come.

– Steeljaw Scribe

USNI: Taking Our Institute Back – Following the Numbers Salamander Style

BySteeljawscribe 5 April 2011

There is a saying in politics that if you really want to find out what is going on, follow the money. The current Chairman of the USNI Board of Directors has cited the need for the Institute to gain financial stability as the prime motivator behind their actions leading up to the mission change. Following…

Reflections

Badgers, Buccaneers and Bears…(Pt 2)

BySteeljawscribe 24 September 200622 January 2008

Part I here Badgers, Buccaneers and Bears…(Pt 2) (A North Atlantic tale from the "good ole days") Stopping by Maintenance Control, the lieutenant asked for the aircraft discrepancy book on 602. All the current and near past ills of the aircraft are chronicled in this three-ring binder, giving crews an idea of what they…

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The Solomons Campaign: Execution at Savo Island

BySteeljawscribe 9 August 200910 March 2016

Today’s post examines the first major response at sea, to the invasion by Allied forces on Guadalcanal a couple of days earlier. Our guest author for this article is CDR Bill Bullard, USN. CDR Bullard has just completed his CO tour as the 70th Commanding Officer of Old Ironsides, where Age of Sail…

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USS Ranger – Sad News

BySteeljawscribe 21 December 2012

For some time now we’ve been hosting a link for the USS Ranger Foundation, a group dedicated to moving the ex-USS Ranger (CVA/CV-61) to a site in the northwest US for establishment as the centerpiece of a maritime museum.Â Contingent on that hope was approval by the US Navy to do so and raising significant…

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The Solomon Islands Campaign: Prelude to the Series

BySteeljawscribe 30 June 200922 July 2009

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…

Navy

Postcards from Deployment:

BySteeljawscribe 13 August 200913 August 2009

Those of us who have spent any amount of time at sea recognize the syndrome – after the first week or two, when the initial rush of getting underway and operating at sea begins to wear off, the routine settles in and pretty soon, one day (or night) melts into the next and the only…

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