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SCRUBEX
SCRUBEX The photo was at the Commander, 7th Fleet site. Fond Memories………..possibly. It has been so long since I participated in such an evolution. It ain’t all shoot em from the front and catch em on...
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Military Bleg
Funny the things you learn about people you’ve known for years. One of my dear friends, who I’ve known for 12 years, just mentioned that he served on the USS Kittyhawk from 1990-1994 as an Aviation...
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USS Enterprise makes final foreign port Visit at Naples, Italy
USS Enterprise makes final foreign port Visit at Naples, Italy. I vaguely remember when she was commissioned on the one TV station we got in Malta, MT fifty one years ago…….I was seven years old.
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A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
USS Arizona Memorial She is still there, in the same place she was on a balmy Sunday morning back in 1941. The daily routine was underway, sailors were doing the things sailors do on a quiet Sunday...
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50 Years Ago…
At 0800 hours on the 9th of April, 1963, USS Thresher (SSN-593) got underway from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to begin initial post-overhaul dive trials in the Atlantic some 220 nautical miles east of...
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How Do You Name an Aircraft Carrier? | The Daily Planet
Interesting piece……………………………………………..”Which brings us to carriers. The Navy’s first carrier (a converted collier), the USSLangley, was named for aviation pioneer Samuel P. Langley, the inventor of...
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Her final voyage: Navy’s first super-carrier USS Forrestal begins journey to...
Having served in Independence and Ranger, this does tug at the heart strings a bit. I did serve in those years with men who were aboard Forrestal during the tragedy of 1967. The Navy has paid one cent...
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USS Ranger Flight Ops Off Vietnam 1972
From the good old days. The heart aches for the variety of aircraft on the flight deck in those days (ok I wasn’t born in ’72 but still). SPOILER ALERT: Yeah, you can have that Viggie trap at...
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Passages. Sad Passages.
Brownsville, Texas It is where ships go to die. Forrestal and Saratoga are unrecognizable. Constellation arrived a couple of weeks ago. The three Good Ships I made cruises on are in the queue....
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Trusting The Public
H/T to one of the Lexicans who posted this to the F/B page. “It is a cautionary tale of well meaning, engagement-seeking bureaucracy and a cheeky public and it could see a very expensive new research...
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