Happy Flag Day America!
Long may she wave… Over the land of the free… …and the home of the brave.
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Linkages
6 June 1944: 6 June 2009: ARABIAN SEA (June 6, 2009) The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69), and the French Navy destroyer FS Forbin (D620) are conducting operations in the Arabian Sea. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility…
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Coming This Fall: The Solomon Islands Campaign
Shifting from defense to offense. Joint and combined operations – and all the hard lessons learned. Finding out that training, tactics and procedures can trump an opponent’s better technology – and more hard lessons learned. Surviving on the razor’s edge and prevailing. Innovate, adapt – overcome. All of this and more are gathered together in…
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USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) – Underway for Super Trials
19 may 2007 – One day after the future Wayne E. Meyer keel was laid: Earlier this week – The Navy’s newest Aegis-destroyer heads to sea for super trials. USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) – the “Father of Aegis” (h/t maizenblue)
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Remembering USS Liberty: 8 June 1967
In between remembering Midway and the 65th Anniversary of the landing at the beaches of Normandy, another anniversary quietly passed – that of the 42nd anniversary of the attack on the Liberty (AGTR-5) on 8 Jun 1967, by air- and naval forces of the state of Israel. In the attack, which lasted for almost an…
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Announcing USNI Essay Contest: Robotics
Northrop Grumman Annual ROBOTICS Essay Contest Goal: Discuss the most pressing needs where ROBOTICS may be a solution The Challenge: “Next year, the US Air Force will procure more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern), has predicted. Â Will advances keep up…
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Six Went In – One Came Home: The Story of The TBF’s of VT-8 at Midway
Stan Stanley has assembled a remarkable site that lays out the little told story of the shore-det of VT-8 and the combat debut of the Grumman TBF Avenger: I have the privilege of knowing Harry Ferrier who was in Torpedo 8 and one of the two survivors of the six TBF’s which launched from Midway…
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PSA: Calling All VP/VS’ers
Your help is requested per the following comment found on an earlier post: SJS: Trying to locate NFO shipmate, Larry McMenniman, assigned to NAVPRO Burbank 1973 to 1976, came from the VP community, involved at NAVPRO in P-3C acceptance flying and S-3A developement and acceptance flying. May have gone on to S-3 Community following NAVPRO….
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Remembering D-Day: The Bedford Boys
The small town of Bedford, VA lies in the mountain country of southwestern Virginia. Tracing its roots back to the earliest days of the country when it was established in 1782 as the town of Liberty, Bedford’s chief clam to fame lay in having served at one time as a Thomas Jefferson’s personal retreat (Poplar…
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June 4th, 1942
Pause… Ponder… Remember… Honor… From these honored aviators, Marines and Sailors – those departed and the few left with us, we draw our heritage…our ethos. May they and their actions this day never be forgotten. And from their stand, may we evermore draw strength. – SJS