Saturday Matinee: Rings Around Rabaul

BySteeljawscribe 27 June 200927 June 2009

Setting the stage for the Solomon Islands Campaign project which kicks off next month…and what better way than with the classic, Victory at Sea:

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Naval Aviation Centennial: One Astronaut, A Future Astronaut and Reaching for New Heights
BySteeljawscribe 20 February 201120 February 2011

Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft…

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Flightdeck Friday: Valour-IT Video Edition
BySteeljawscribe 29 October 200930 October 2009

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…

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Beginning of the End for ‘Big E’
BySteeljawscribe 26 June 200728 March 2010

Announced today: Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va., was awarded a $20,669,181 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on June 25, 2007, for core team and continuous maintenance planning, Extended Dry-docking Selected Restricted Availability planning, hull planning yard services, execution of continuous maintenance, and inactivation planning for USS Enterprise (CVN 65).This contract allows for the necessary planning,…

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The 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month – When the Guns Fell Silent
BySteeljawscribe 11 November 2012

At the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month…the guns fell silent along what was known then as the Western Front as the Allies and Germany observed the agreement to end this “War to End All Wars.” While fighting continued sporadically elsewhere, in what were fast becoming the former empires of Russia…

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“Never Again…”
BySteeljawscribe 15 December 200616 January 2012

Tonight, at sundown, begins the celebration of Hanukkah by our Jewish brothers and sisters. Coming as it does on the heels of the “the Holocaust is a Fake” conference of alleged “scholars” (and trust me, that term is extremely loosely applied) in Tehran, it reminds us of the continuing struggle between the Light of Truth…

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Maybe a 5.9 on the Richter, But a 1.0 in Preparation
BySteeljawscribe 23 August 2011

Ten years ago, a couple of weeks from now, I emerged from a burning, shattered Pentagon to a scene of utter chaos in South Parking, jammed cell lines and what soon became a traffic jam bordering on the Apocalyptic. Today, while much further to the south of DC, but actually closer to the quake’s epicenter,…

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