Saying Goodbye to Summer: Calvin-style
…and now for something a little different…
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According to today’s Times of India, on January 1, India’s Defense Ministry’s Joint Secretary and Acquisitions Manager (Maritime Systems) signed a purchase agreement with Boeing’s Integrated Systems and in-country lead for eight P-8I Poseidon’s at a price of $2.1B(US), more than double the previous major US sale to India ($962M for six C-130J in 2007). …
Weekend Notes
Quick note to pass along that VAJoe.com has an interview of Your Humble Scribe up at his site. Try not to laugh too hard… The rains (and oppressive humidity) have relented so with blue skies in the offing, believe it’s time to hit the roads for the mountains of WVa with the family – in…
Tunnel of Love (not)…
Those of us who spent anytime in Hampton Roads became intimately familiar with the “joys” of two significant landmarks – the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the more recent cousin, the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel. The HRBT, as it is called in polite company, is the link from Norfolk to the Peninsula, unless, of course,…
Kicking off the New Year
In Grand Style — presented herewith, Duck Dogers in the 241/2th Century (one of my all time favorites): (h/t: Chap)
USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) Commissioned
11,000 tons gross displacement. 622.5 ft long. 45 aircraft – that was the USS San Jacinto (CVL 30). Sixty-five years ago, on a September morning, a young naval aviator launched his Grumman TBF Avenger from her deck on a mission to strike facilities at Chi Chi Jima. Forty-five years later he was raising his hand,…
Sunday with Calvin
…where the Scribe channels one notable childhood camping experience of his own: and it wasn’t cold ravioli – it was cold spaghetti-O’s…
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