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BySteeljawscribe 6 November 2014

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PMA-231 Kneeboard Volume 8, Issue 1 by Steeljaw Scribe

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USNI: Taking Back Our Institution – 7 Mar Update
BySteeljawscribe 6 March 20116 March 2011

If you haven’t yet — vote In the mail this past week, one of our readers wrote of something he noticed at the bottom of the email newsletter he’d recently received: The U.S. Naval Institute is an independent forum founded in 1873 to advance the knowledge of sea power, to exchange ideas on national security…

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Flightdeck Friday: Countdown to Midway – IJN Carrier-based Air Order of Battle (AOB)
BySteeljawscribe 25 May 200712 March 2008

KIDO BUTAI First Carrier Striking Force VADM Nagumo Chuichi Chief of Staff: RADM Kusaka Ryunosuke Carrier Division 1 – VADM Nagumo Akagi (flagship) – Captain Aoki Taijiro, commanding 18 x A6M2 carrier fighters (aka Zero) 18 x D3A1 carrier bombers (aka Val) 18 x B5N2 carrier attack aircraft (aka Kate) 6 x A6M2 fighters (6th…

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Catching Up: The Latest on the ex-USS Ranger, Reviews and More…
BySteeljawscribe 12 May 201327 May 2013

Been a very busy winter and spring here in the Scribe’s household – between the demands of customer support during the Great Musudan Snipe Hunt and mom corporate’s demands for a tech writer, our days/nights/weekends have been filled with briefs, drafts (*not* of the liquid variety) and teleconferences measured in hours, not minutes; our time’s…

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Flightdeck Friday: Boeing F4B-4
BySteeljawscribe 1 February 20081 February 2008

trans·for·ma·tion (trÄns’fÉ™r-mÄ’shÉ™n): the act of changing in form or shape or appearance. 1928. Boeing is rolling the dice and has invested its own money in developing two prototype aircraft it hopes to demonstrate to the Navy and later the Army as replacements for the F3B, currently serving with the Navy, and PW-9, serving with the…

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Flightdeck Friday – Video Edition
BySteeljawscribe 14 September 200714 September 2007

A little something for everyone this week: Old School ops — Whales, Demons, and Coral Maru…yes Virginia, there was a time when Whale ops on a CVA meant more than one A3D…and a Whale barricade for good measure. The next one you have to see it to believe it — how about the ’89 Flogger…

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Midway 70 Years Later: USN Carrier-based Air Order of Battle
BySteeljawscribe 2 June 20123 June 2012

Task Force 17 – Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher in Yorktown Task Group 17.5 Carrier Group – CAPT Elliott Buckmaster USS Yorktown (CV-5)CAPT Buckmaster CVG-5 – LCDR Oscar Pederson VS-5LT Wallace Clark Short, Jr.19 (17) x SBD-3 VF-3LCDR John Smith Thach27 (25) x F4F-4 VB-3LCDR Maxwell Franklin Leslie 18 (17) x SBD-3 VT-3LCDR Lance Edward…

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