Pops (SJS) called and asked if we had put anything up on the Guam Bears yet — we said we were busy with his other weekend rock-painting exercise article, but he said to do something. So here’s some photos from the golden era (note the interceptor of choice) and a link back to his series…
Hi all – this is the first post the Scribe wanted me to put up for you all. He’s always muttering up us kids and needing to ‘know our roots.’ So when all us apprentices started pulling his beard about being around since Methusela, well, he kinda went all Old Testament on us apprentices and…
(OK, confess — how many of you knew of homarus americanus without having to Google it?) Seems many these days are going EMCON Alfa (or Bravo as the case may be) whilst off in various and sundry pursuits. YHS intends to join the late summer sojourns and show some parts of the country heretofore unseen…
(Photos courtesy NASA) Beautiful…seriously, just beautiful… (Yes, we know the top shot is of Atlantis…)
We have commented previously in these spaces about the emerging threat of the PRC, concentrating primarily on the missile and naval forces thereof. Additionally, we have also followed with interest Russian developments with their strategic forces. If that isn’t enough to grab your attention, let’s add this as well – the Commander in…
It started with a letter (the old fashioned kind — pen and paper) that began "You don’t know me but we have a mutual friend…" It grew into a whirlwind relationship with precious time grabbed between squadron dets, workups and deployments and culminated on a humid Virginia Beach evening in August, twenty-five years ago by…
08:16 Local, 6 August 1945
VAJoe has a contest running for military-oriented charities with several generous prizes (including a Grand Prize of $1K) set aside for the winning charity. Sixty-six organizations are represented, from the 9/11 Help America Foundation to the Wounded Warriror Project – and if you don’t see one you think should be there, you can nominate one. …
(from the DoD press release): The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors. They are Lt. Col. James H. Ayres, of Pampa, Texas,…
A Flightdeck Friday "three-fer" (From a Northrop Grumman press release) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Aug. 3, 2007 — The first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye development aircraft, known as Delta One, built for the U.S. Navy by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC),completed its first flight this afternoon. Northrop Grumman Flight Test Pilot Tom Boutin and…
