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“And Now For Something Completely Different…”

BySteeljawscribe 7 October 2008

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat:
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…timeless…

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On this date in Naval History
BySteeljawscribe 2 October 2007

2 October: 1799: The Washington Navy Yard was estbalished 1950: The Bureau of Aeronautics authorized the establishment of Project Arowa (Applied Research: Operational Weather Analysis) at Norfolk for the purpose of developing basic meteorological research data into practical weather forecasting techniques. 1952: Aircraft carriers designated CV and CVB were reclassified as Attack Carriers and assigned…

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“Fire on the Flightdeck!”: 14 Jan 1969
BySteeljawscribe 14 January 200814 January 2008

14/0819L Jan 1969: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) is conducting workups in preparations for combat operations off North Vietnam with CVW-9 embarked. First event for the day has just been launched and respot for second event is underway. USS Bainbridge and Rogers are in company. Aft of the isalnd, the exhaust from an "huffer" (jet starting unit) has…

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Project CADILLAC: The Beginning of AEW in the US Navy (Part II)
BySteeljawscribe 9 October 201011 October 2010

Project CADILLAC (Part II) Â Â Â Â Project Cadillac was more than just a program to develop radar â€“ it would develop an entire AEW system — Radar, IFF, relay equipment, shipboard receivers, and airborne platform. Such an undertaking would be ambitious enough in peacetime, at the height of a critical stage in the…

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The Subcontinent’s Missile Race
BySteeljawscribe 21 January 200912 October 2014

A quick history lesson. A quarter of a century ago, the US (and NATO) were engaged in an unprecedented nuclear arms build-up in Europe that was initiated with the deployment of the SS-20 Sabre (NATO)/RT-21M Pioneer (Russia) IRBM in 1976. Unlike the much older SS-4 and SS-5 IRBMs, employed in 1959 and 1961,…

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Countdown to Midway: 30 May 1942
BySteeljawscribe 30 May 200728 March 2010

EUROPE: Britain launches its first 1000-plane bomber raid – the target: Cologne, Germany. CHINA-BURMA-INDIA: Myitkyina, Burma is again hit by B-17’s. Again no activity is observed and the attacks are discontinued. HQ 7th Bombardment Group transfers from Karachi to Dum-Dum, India. ALASKA: 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 28th Composite Group, based at Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, Territory…

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Another Cold War Closeout
BySteeljawscribe 28 September 200628 February 2010

While your faithful scribe does not hail from the VP community, he still nonetheless has spent time in Kef (and has the arrested field landings to prove it), most notably when E-2Cs replaced E-3’s during the late 1980-spring ’81 timeframe. ’twill be the subject of a future “Reflections.” Last U.S. Servicemembers to Leave Iceland Sept….

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