Flightdeck Friday: Santa’s Sleigh Goes Undergoes a Threat Analysis
From the desk of your favorite IAMD threat analyst:
USNI Join-up in Newport
In Newport on Thursday, 12 Dec 2013? Have questions or concerns about what direction the Naval Institute is headed? Or perhaps some ideas to share…maybe you’d like to meet an author and get that article or book idea that’s been rattling around in the brainpan for a few out into the open? Or perhaps issues…
“Air Raid Pearl Harbor. This is Not A Drill.” *
* Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and…
Protests in Ukraine – a ‘Blue’ Revolution?
Quick overview of why the protests in #Ukraine today- (Source: Radio Free Europe) — Until late November, President Viktor Yanukovych had said he intended to sign a pact with Europe, but backed out after pressure from Moscow. He also refused to allow former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to leave prison for medical care in Germany…
Combined Federal Campaign and The VAW/VRC Scholarship Fund
Yes folks – the VAW/VRC Memorial Scholarship Fund is still available for contributions through CFC — just takes a little digging. The CFC number for the Scholarship Fund is –35747 Please consider giving this year! w/r, SJS
Take The Long Way Home
Talk to anyone from Northern Virginia (NoVA in the vernacular) and guaranteed, within five or so minutes, the issue of traffic will come up. Usually in the context of how unbelievably bad it is, even on the best of days and something out of Dante on the worst. In the Old World, all roads may…
Remember…
I still remember like it was yesterday…when the sky turned black; Of shipmates and strangers, joined by one terrible act; and what was before – is forever changed… Remember…
Underway
Wouldst thou,â€â€“so the helmsman answered, “Learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery!†– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It’s a hard life and one oft misunderstood by those who haven’t been there, for they don’t know the allure, the draw that the sea can have. She is a demanding…
A Little FITREP Humor From Out West
“LT X’s body of work stands for itself in his chosen field of work” (shot outside of Cody, WY)
Flightdeck Friday – Independence Day Edition
So yes, it’s not really Friday by the calendar – but that hasn’t stopped us before. For your consideration an interesting take on this Independence Day of Americans flying a British fighter for recce missions deep into Germany, sans armor (or armour if you please) and guns, loaded with gas and cameras. Big cameras (for…