File this under “Getting It Right”: IMMEDIATE RELEASE   No. 352-12 May 07, 2012 Secretary of The Navy Announces DDG 116 to be Named Thomas Hudner Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today the next Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (DDG) will be named the USS Thomas Hudner. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a naval…
Ten years ago, a couple of weeks from now, I emerged from a burning, shattered Pentagon to a scene of utter chaos in South Parking, jammed cell lines and what soon became a traffic jam bordering on the Apocalyptic. Today, while much further to the south of DC, but actually closer to the quake’s epicenter,…
With the recent press of the Soviet Russian carrier group coming out of hibernation for a Med sortie, we thought it was about time for another Reflections series – this time finding our gallant scribe back at sea after his first shore tour at Naval Postgrad School. This time he is on a second sea…
Via ‘Phib comes a link to check your writing style and it looks like . . . I write like Edgar Allan Poe I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! Wonder if my Freshman English prof is still around. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting,…
This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the E-2 Hawkeye’s entry into Fleet operations. Â Over the course of those fifty-years the aircraft has radically changed and grown in capabilities and mission focus, while visually remaining much the same as the first E-2A . Â From Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq, Â it has been a part…
Real heroes – amazing, and humbling, in what they do.
