Christmas Lights – Navy Style
From the Fleet…around the world and always on watch.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and peace and prosperity in the new year to come.
– Steeljaw Scribe
From the Fleet…around the world and always on watch.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and peace and prosperity in the new year to come.
– Steeljaw Scribe
O BE joyful in the LORD, all ye lands: * serve the LORD with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the LORD he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; * we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O…
SJS, As I write this we are in the process of pulling pier side to a major US Naval Base on the Eastern seaboard. My squadron is being offloaded here and on the way home to our families and loved ones. At the same time we are on loading about 1500 tigers. A tiger is…
Of eagles and other sundry creatures trapped in the gravity well known as “the Beltway” to honor Lex tomorrow (9 March): Siné Irish Pub & Restaurant 1301 South Joyce Street, Arlington, VA 22202 1730 until ? And lest there be any concern re. the Guinness – someone mentioned they were flying in an emergency re-supply:
It started with a letter (the old fashioned kind — pen and paper) that began "You don’t know me but we have a mutual friend…" It grew into a whirlwind relationship with precious time grabbed between squadron dets, workups and deployments and culminated on a humid Virginia Beach evening in August, twenty-five years ago by…
So – life as a Sailor in this modern Navy — you’ve caught glimpses here and at other spots like Lex’s, Pinch, and Yankee Sailor. But that’s the view from Officer Country. Southern logs in this week with some thoughts across a wide-range of topics from the enlisted POV. We’ve said it before and will…
It began with a phone call – “It always begins with a damn phone call…†the young LT thought morosely to himself. Any other time he would be drinking in the warmth of the Florida sun, enjoying the beach, such as it was, across the highway from Patrick AFB, but not this time.