Thinking Blogger Award
Through the 2996 list this blog has been nominated for a “Thinking Blogger Award.” As part of the acceptance we are to nominate up to five other blogs for the award.Envelopes (sorry, no checks) are inbound…
– SJS
Through the 2996 list this blog has been nominated for a “Thinking Blogger Award.” As part of the acceptance we are to nominate up to five other blogs for the award.Envelopes (sorry, no checks) are inbound…
– SJS
15 November 1960. The USS George Washington (SSBN-598) deployed from Charleston, SC with a load-out of 16 UGM-67 Polaris A-1s on the first strategic deterrence patrol. The first US nuclear-powered submarine armed with long-range ballistic missiles, the GW was ordered on 31 December 1957, with orders to convert two attack submarine hulls to missile-carrying FBM…
Aw heck, since it seems some others have suddenly discovered the project, let me toss this blog in the hat too (carried over from the legacy site BTW). Please take my Blog Reader Project survey.
(This clock belonged to the chaplain on the USS Arizona and was stoppedby the force of the explosion which destroyed her)
(re-posted from last year) I lost a friend today. We have lost a friend, a father, husband — a comrade in arms. Fellow aviator and blogger-at-arms, Neptunus Lex, was killed earlier today when the F-21 Kfir he was flying in support of Top Gun’s adversary squadron crashed at NAS Fallon. No word on the cause…