(Flightdeck Friday will be a bit delayed this week as we are "experimenting" with "transformational capabilities" to provide you, dear reader, with an "unparalleled experience" – ungh, did we just write that? IOW, YHS has been trying mightily to get something to work – it hasn’t and so he’s behind the power curve. We’ll have…
News and notes from the other side of the Iron Red Velvet Curtain this week. Navy Plans To Move To St. Petersburg (MOSCOW TIMES 01 NOV 07) Alexander Belenky The Defense Ministry is planning to move the Navy headquarters to St. Petersburg in the latest instance of a federal institution being shifted to the former…
OK folks – there’s our side: …And, well, their’s…sitting around all pretty like static displays Hmm, might be seein’ one of these again in the near future…just, sayin‘, you know…
So – get a couple hundred bucks ahead and Team Zoomie starts feelin’ their oats? Laugh it up folks – here’s your future:
(2 Nov Update) Check it out — over 10% of the way there. Thanks folks, but we still have a long way to go as yet. And you know what? It needn’t be a huge contribution (though those would certainly be welcomed too!). Five dollars, ten – even twenty will go a long way…
Mike over at No Angst Zone has picked up the gauntlet and dares to think the Junior Service can prevail. Ha! He even tries to resurrect that phony test off VA Capes. Remember that? The one where not only the targets were, well, you know, "fixed". Afterall, when they had to go against a real…
Received in the mail the other day: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 1253-07 October 26, 2007 ——————————————————————————– Navy Crew MIA From Vietnam War is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of five U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been accounted-for and will be returned to…
Open challenge to Mike over at No Angst Zone — if Team USAF is ahead of Team Navy after the final reckoning on 11 Nov, then the following Friday (16 Nov), my Flightdeck Friday post will be devoted to a (gag) scummy, prissy, no *real* tailhookin’ USAF/USAAF/Air Corps plane, your choice. I’ll give it the…
“Support our Troops” So says the ubiquitous magnetic sticker on yet another non-descript vehicle on the road up ahead – but one wonders if the driver/occupant knows of a program that directly, materially supports our troops in a life-changing way? That program would be Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops). The short story is…
Having read (and re-read) the new MS several times since its release, as well as the associated commentary, we offer the following thoughts (delayed, no thanks, due to the intrusion of our day job(s)…) Some notes first – we will confess to being somewhat disappointed at first glance thinking to ourselves “where’s the beef?” Much of…
