If tw0’s company and three’s a conspiracy/mutiny – what about a bunch more? Call it Milblogger 2010 . . . Made it to the morning session before having to depart for other duties in the afternoon, but in the interim joined up with Mary (USNI), ‘Phib (CDR Salamander), Taco (Sandgram), Jim Dolbow (USNI); Sgt B…
The new START Treaty was signed in Prague today and the text for both the Treaty (17 pages) and the Protocols (165 pages) are available. On reading the text of the Treaty (still wading through the Protocols) am finding nothing untoward or diverging from what has been said here and elsewhere these past few days….
Ah, Aviation Working Greens – my absolute favorite day-to-day uniform to wear during Norfolk winters and guaranteed way to get a non-aviator’s head to explode in the pre-Lehman years. Lots of mythology and conjecture as to how we came to acquire (a) the green uniform and (b) the accompanying brown shoes, so maybe this will…
As previously reported, the Navy called off the search for the missing fourth crewmember of Bluetail 601, LT Steve Zilberman, USN of Columbus, Ohio declaring him lost at sea and presumed dead.  A memorial service in honor of LT Steve Zilberman, will be held this Thursday, 8 April 2010  at 10:00am at the Naval Station Norfolk base chapel…
Released today: 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report More to follow after I’ve had a chance to read/assess and balance vs QDR and BMDR
Well the nominations are in and on the Navy side of the house there are five sites up for your voting consideration –USNI’s blog, CDR Salamander, Neptunus Lex, US Fleet Forces Command (ADM Harvey’s blog) and your humble scribe. The list provides a most interesting cross-section of the Navy’s milblogging community. There are active duty…
He Is Risen 1. Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. 2. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the…
Not the post I’d planned for today – received word late yesterday that our close friend and sister in Christ, Sarah, was back in the hospital this weekend for radiation treatment in her ongoing struggle mortal battle with cancer (now with lesions on the brain and one vertebra). Bob, her husband is also near total…
16 August 1960 — Captain Joseph Kittinger, USAF stepped from the gondola of his high altitude helium balloon and began a record-breaking plunge to the ground, over 120, 000 ft below. With a drogue chute deployed to stabilize his freefall (a lesson-learned form the first jump) he reached a maximum velocity of 614 mph before…
(Breaking) Getting early reports that an E-2C Hawkeye assigned to the VAW-121 (“Bluetails”) is down in the North Arabian Sea. The crew evidently conducted a controlled bailout and three of the four have been recovered by SAR efforts.  Fourth remains missing after four hours. I can only speculate on what the cause of the mishap…
