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Project Valour-IT 2009: Entering the Final Stretch
Three Days to go…and it’s time to press. Current status by team (it ain’t pretty) Neat stuff up for auction here (yes, we’ve bid — and would *really* like an autograph by the author…) Folks – and I’m especially calling out our sea service buds, we need to see some serious action in the funds…
Valour-IT 2009: Video Competition
So, its like this. A competition is being held within the competition between the teams for best Valour-IT video. I’m sure someone has put together a slide show set to (trite) tear-jerking music. We didn’t. We opted for some kick@$$ instead… So, a familiar video – but with some twists, courtesy Team Navy: Oh yes…
Valour-IT 2009: Bacon, Swine, Pearls and Ping-Pong (non)diplomacy
Ok – after an intro like that, I’m sure you are scratching your collective heads and wondering what gives? 1. Bacon: As in Jeff Bacon – retired naval officer and cartoonist extraordinaire. He who wields a cartoonist pen like a broad-axe, with no community being spared: Jeff joins Team Navy for this year’s competition and…
Project Valour-IT 2009: Stuff? We Got Stuff…
There’s that Nolan Ryan autographed baseball that has continued to elude you, or perhaps a personalized copy of Jim Stavridis’ Destroyer Captain strikes your fancy. . .maybe a signed print especially made for this year’s campaign by Chris Muir of Day-by-Day is high on your ‘most desired’ list ? These and much more are over…
Flightdeck Friday: Valour-IT Video Edition
Team Army and Marines are yucking it up, figuring they’ve got this thing cinched in the early going and Chairforce entertains delusional dreams of finishing 3rd . . . sooooo, time for a little motivation: Well, that’s a start… Better, but not quite on topic (especially where DC and football are concerned – maybe it…
VALOUR-IT Fundraiser, 2009 Edition Underway!
And we’re off…! The 2009 edition of the Project Valour-IT fundraiser is underway and once again, Team Navy is one of the participating teams. But what, you may ask, is Valour-IT? What is it all about? The short story is Valour-IT, an IRS-certified non-profit, non-political, volunteer organization provides technology aids to wounded Soldiers, Marines, Sailors…
Postcards from Deployment: Shipboard Life/Work Balance
SJS, It is now Monday evening. We were just visited by a USO show this past Saturday, some band called “The Scarlet Ending”. They were from up near Syracuse, New York. They played onboard here on the 9th of October. The ship cleared off Hangar Bay 2 and sent up a little stage on top…
United States Navy: Happy 234th Birthday
13 October 1775: Continental Congress “Resolved, That a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months, and that the commander be instructed to cruize eastward, for intercepting such transports as may be laden with…
Postcards From Deployment: Daily Routines
AT1 checks in today with a post about routines – daily and otherwise. Folks who have never been to sea or put to sea for extended periods often ask how one gets by on a day-to-day basis, what with the monotony of the scenery and smallness of the ship and all. My answer is, as…