Sea & Sky
Sometimes you come across a photo that is just so perfect, that nothing else need be said. Ecce:
Postcards from Deployment: Now Liberty Call – Asia (Eat Your Heart Out Skippy-san!)
Our deployed correspondent, AT1 Charles Berleman, checks in from the latest liberty port: SJS, Okay to start with I am currently in Malaysia, but last week I had a chance to visit the island of Phuket (pronounced Foo-Ket) in the Indian Ocean side of Thailand. An interesting place historically. It is one of the few…
Seascapes
Ever wonder what “they” meant when talking about a painted sky? Wonder no more: PERSIAN GULF (Dec. 22, 2008) The guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) transits through the Persian Gulf. Ramage is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of…
Postcards from Deployment: “The Song That Never Ends”
SJS, As I write this we are in the process of pulling pier side to a major US Naval Base on the Eastern seaboard. My squadron is being offloaded here and on the way home to our families and loved ones. At the same time we are on loading about 1500 tigers. A tiger is…
Postcards From Deployment: Coming Home II
Welcome to Marseilles! SJS, So since I last wrote you I was in Rhodes Greece. Since then about a week has elapsed and we have operated with the French Naval Air Force, being a flex deck for them to get some carrier quals in with their E-2’s and Rafales. A couple of the Rafales landed…
Postcards from Deployment: Homeward Bound (I)
Southern’s latest missive arrives following liberty call in Rhodes as the Truman CSG is headed home. Having spent some time batting about the Aegean Sea in an LST for a midshipman cruise and liberty in Athens (a very long time ago – and yes, there is a story courtesy our airwing buds from the VAQ…
Postcards from Deployment: Coming Home (?)
SJS, So two carriers or one? I can’t say, don’t know, and even if I did can’t talk about it. That being said, the media and some of their retired talking heads are playing up something out of nothing. We traded off with our relief and am now out in the IO cruising around Gonzo…
Postcards From Deployment – Not So Fast Folks…
SJS, I am sure that most of have heard of the new offensive where the Iraqi Army is trying to replace the various anti-government militias in cities such as Baghdad and Basra. So that has lead to us being extended here on our current line period. They have extended us twice because of the need…
Postcards from Deployment: “Strange FOD”
SJS, From our ship’s newspaper though the folks back home might get a laugh out of this: Sailors Rescue a Nocturnal Creature MC3 Damian Martinez When the words foreign object debris (FOD) come to mind the last thing someone thinks about is an owl. On the morning of March 17 on board USS Harry S….
Postcards From Deployment: “This is a Drill, This is a Drill …”
(ed. Online Damage Control school/library here. – SJS) SJS, So it has been a couple of days since we pulled back out of our home away from home. I know, I know, I was just there; but the powers to be decided to vary our sked up so we showed back up. Spent the time…