Flightdeck Friday Cinema: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Given this week’s observance of the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, thought it only fitting to pass a couple of videos your way… Actual footage: …and there’s more below the fold.
Launching the USNI Wiki
If you recall, we previously pointed to the Strategic Plan rolled out in last week’s Annual Membership meeting. That plan has four objectives: Enhance national understanding of the vital contribution of American seapower; Preserve and make available naval history; Increase, broaden and engage our membership Secure endowments to fund key strategies and initiatives that enable…
The Doolittle Raid – 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning
Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over. Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…
In The Mail Today: “The Admirals” by Walter R. Borneman
So – just as I was making a serious dent in the pile of shame, in the mail today comes an advance copy of “The Admirals” courtesy the publisher, Little Brown, scheduled for release next month. The noted author Walter R. Borneman (Polk, 1812, and The French and Indian War among several) takes on the…
The Missiles of Spring: 2012 Edition
Stick around any job long enough and pretty soon you’ll find a pattern of repetition or cycles will emerge. When on active duty, it was inexorably tied to the CVW turnaround training cycle. This year we are now on the threshold of the 3rd North Korean space launch vehicle (SLV) attempt since 2006 and the…
US Naval Institute: 2012 Annual Meeting
Back from this year’s meeting with some goods and a few others. First off, I want to thank again everyone for your votes and support for my candidacy to the USNI Board of Directors. Alas, I did not make it and while a bit disappointed (my one “other” here), I am encouraged with the cohort…
Behold – An Empty Tomb And A Risen Savior
1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out…
Flightdeck Friday — The Ties That Bind (II): Remembering Ned Geiger
Another Flightdeck Friday and sadly, another memorial – this time for another pillar of the E-2C Community, CAPT Edward C. Geiger, USN, ret. (“Ned”). Ned passed away suddenly earlier this week just as he was beginning to enjoy a well deserved retirement having wrapped up his post-Navy career. Services are tentatively slated for…
The Ties That Bind
It has been said that in a world intricately and inexorably connected, individually, we seem to draw apart from one another. That those connections we have are tenuous, virtual and of little lasting substance or effect. Like spiderwebs on the wind, we connect and (temporarily) bond with whatever object we come in contact…
Flightdeck Friday – A Gathering
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: