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Vikings.  Hawkeyes.  CODs.  Prowlers.  Whales (when they were still around)… Cats and dogs we were called.  Didn’t go fast (‘cept down hill).  Didn’t do afterburner flybys.  Boss and Handler generaly tolerated ’em, barely, unless they went stiff wing in the wires, then all hell was unleashed.  Usually got the back-end pick of the Ready Rooms…

Annapolis Naval History Symposium 20-22 Sept

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The History Department of the United States Naval Academy has resumed its sponsorship of the biennial Annapolis Naval History Symposia. (The last scheduled Symposium had had to be cancelled due to the events of 9-11-2001). The next Symposium will take place 20-22 September 2007 (with the following one scheduled for 2009). PROGRAM: (See Program here)…

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The Doolittle Raid – 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning

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Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over.   Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…

23 January 1968: USS Pueblo – Never Forget

23 January 1968: USS Pueblo – Never Forget

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Then:   (CIA A-12 Recce mission on 26 January) Now: Taedong River, Pyongyang, North Korea ( 38°59’27.83″N x 125°43’32.13″E) Remember: Remember: Read the story here, here or here.  A clearly provactive and illegal hijacking on the high seas by the North Koreans – and compounded by inexplicably poor contingency planning on the part of US…