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Project Valour-IT: Team Navy

BySteeljawscribe 1 July 20111 July 2011

Fight’s on:

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More to follow…

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Project Valour-IT Naval Aviation Factoid: 17 November
BySteeljawscribe 17 November 200816 November 2008

17 Nov 1924–Langley reported for duty with the Battle Fleet, thereby ending over 2 years in experimental status and becoming the first operational aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. On 1 December she also became the flagship of Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet. Valour-IT Fundrainsing Update (through 14 Nov): Here are the official totals through Day…

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Navy Names Two New Guided Missile Destroyers
BySteeljawscribe 16 May 200728 March 2010

YHS’ take – as long as there are destroyers in the Navy, one should be named Spruance… Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter has announced the names for the U.S. Navy’s two newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyers to honor two American heroes famous for their naval service. DDG hull number 110 will be named…

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Project Valour-IT: Straight Talk Express
BySteeljawscribe 20 November 200826 November 2008

26 Nov update: Two days left folks; today and tomorrowÂ – let’s make it count!! Let’s set aside the competition for a minute and talk straight to the heart of the matter.Â Fact is, the need is great and growing.Â Our wounded warriors number in the tens of thousands, the majority of which would benefit in…

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Midway 70 Years Later: June 3rd — First Contact
BySteeljawscribe 3 June 2012

WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE 1942 ALASKA: In an attempt to divert forces from the Midway area, a Japanese carrier-based bombers and fighters bomb and strafe Ft Mears and Dutch Harbor in several waves inflicting little damage but killing 52 US personnel. P-40s from Cold Bay trying to intercept them arrive 10 minutes after the last attack…

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Sayonara Kitty Hawk
BySteeljawscribe 28 May 200830 March 2010

Skippy can provide a learned dissertation on the various forms of “Good-bye” one encounters in the Japanese language, but he will tell you that the one with a note of finality about it is “Sayonara.” YOKOSUKA, Japan (May 28, 2008) The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) departs Yokosuka, Japan for the final time…

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ex-USS Horne (CG-30): More Fodder for RIMPAC ’08
BySteeljawscribe 27 June 200830 March 2010

Like the ex-USS Davd R. Ray (DD-971) reported on yesterday, The Horne is also slated to be used as a target for the upcoming RIMPAC ’08 exercise. Fifth ship of the Belknap-class and named for the VCNO during most of WWII, ADM Fredrick J. Horne, she was commissioned 15 April 1967 with then-CAPT Stansfield Turner…

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