Milestones…

As we wrestle with an ISP that seems to have a different sense of urgency than YHS when it comes to transferring service upon shifting our flag, access to the ‘verse will continue to be, well, spotty, over the next few days.  What little we are able to accomplish is via the services of our…

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Stand-up of the Navy Air and Missile Defense Command (NAMDC)

On Thursday, 30 April 2009, the Navy’s newest Center of Excellence (COE), the Navy Air and Missile Defense Center, was opened for business onboard the Naval Weapons Development Center, Dahlgren Virginia. RADM Brad Hicks, who is also the Aegis BMD program director, will serve as the Center’s first commander until a permanent flag is assigned…

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Красная звезда среда – Red Star Wednesday

Several items on the docket today: If at first you don’t succeed… From Ria Novosti comes word the much troubled Bulava SLBM will be tested five times in the coming year: Despite five failures in 10 trials, Russia’s Defense Ministry is planning to complete a series of Bulava tests and put the ICBM into service by…

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This Date in Naval Aviation History: 15 Apr 1969 – Deep Sea 129

The weak can be rash. The powerful must be restrained.– Secretary of State William Rogers, April 1969   For most of these past several weeks, international attention has been focused on the activities taking place near a peninsula on the north-east coast of Korea.   There, despite protests and warnings from around the world, the…

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Restructuring the Military: 2009 Edition

… (T)his budget represents an opportunity; one of those rare chances to match virtue to necessity, to critically and ruthlessly separate appetites from real requirements, those things that are desirable in a perfect world from those things that are truly needed in light of the threats America faces and the missions we are likely to…

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E-2D Advanced Hawkeye – Death By A Thousand Cuts?

Disclaimer: I am not nor have I ever been an employee of N-G.  Yes, I have over 3,000 hours in their E-2C and it is with that time, and the experiences it has brought across a wide playing field that the following is submitted. – SJS The final deliveries of supplies and materials for the…

“Hell, this is like an old-time turkey shoot!”

19 June 1944. Philippine Sea – TF 58 is conducting operations in preparation fo the invasion of Guam.  Consisting of five major groups, TF-58 is one of the most formidable assemblies of naval power the world had seen. In front (to the west) was Vice Admiral Willis Lee’s Task Group 58.7 (TG-58.7), the “Battle Line”,…