Looking for anyone who was part of VMF-215 from 1943-45, aviator, ground-pounder or those who may have flown with VMF-215 in combined or associated operations during that period. Bryan Bender, a reporter with the Boston Globe, is looking for any of the above to flesh out a story he is working on stemming from earlier…
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…
Much discussion and analysis (or what some try to pass off as analysis) in the ‘verse. Many, most in fact, are focused on the specifics of the failure and potential threat to the US. But there is more to this than meets the (media) eye, so let’s break it down here. We’ll break this into…
… (T)his budget represents an opportunity; one of those rare chances to match virtue to necessity, to critically and ruthlessly separate appetites from real requirements, those things that are desirable in a perfect world from those things that are truly needed in light of the threats America faces and the missions we are likely to…
Times are hard these days, and for those living on fixed incomes, many of them being our disabled veterans, they are indeed perilous. Over at Lex’s place comes a request from one such who is seeking advice. Stop by, ponder and offer your wisdom, your experience — your assistance. Thank you. – SJS
S-O-L-D (Barely 30 days on the market – thanks Pat, Susan and Valerie, you guys rock!) It’s been a hectic month;Â between a decidedly ramped up optempo at work, courtesy our North Asia buds, writing and submitting the BMD chapter for a forthcoming book and putting the house on the market. Did we mention that…
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine
Remember 9/11? Remember the loss of the WTC and 2,750 workers, firemen, policemen and first responders? Remember how in the shattered concrete and twisted steel of the aftermath we swore to rebuild in the same place something that would defy the evil that brought the towers down? And how we called it Freedom Tower? Well,…
Those dinosaurs amongst us remember them from another age – the ghostly lines that arced out from the geopolitical heartland of the Soviet Union. Head east from Norfolk or west from Pearl or San Diego and you’d trip the first one, established by the orbiting EORSAT and RORSATs, pricking interest in command centers back in…
Paul Gallagher, fellow VAW alum, dropped by a short bit ago to pass along a remembrance of one of the crews we lost in the early ’90s. See, one of the hallmarks of the E-2/C-2 is the (still) relatively low mishap rate. Mishaps, and in particular, mishaps that result in the loss of some or…
