Overheard in the car…

Various comments may or may not have been heard as we may or may not have been heading out to a location… GIF- “Are you SURE we’re supposed to be here?” Me- “Yep, I know I’m good, y’all on the other … Continue reading

WWII Posters…

Thanks to reader Hunter for this one AND the backstory… And HERE is the backstory… h/t Hunter   … Continue reading

Really???

So I come out from our meeting and I see this… Yes, that really IS a locksmith working on the door of a Mustang convertible WITH the top down… Said abashed individual DID lock the keys in the trunk… And … Continue reading

Back in the day…

Hangar 1 at NAS Moffett Field was actually constructed to house the USS Macon, which was built inside the hangar… HERE are links to the construction… Fast forward to the 1970s, and this is one corner of Hangar 1 on … Continue reading

Another one for the YGTBSM file…

Ran across this one while trying to find info on Asperger’s… Micro-Aggression… Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as small acts of mostly non-physical aggression; the term was coined by Chester M. … Continue reading

WWVH…

For drjim… WWVH is the Hawaii time hack on HF (and it is still manned and working)… All us old fart aviators used this to hack out analog watches back in the day. Posted from my iPhone. … Continue reading

More of the ‘story’…

As reader Stretch reminded me, there was more to the article by Vin Suprynowicz titled One Marine, One Ship written in 2000. This is the part of the story about the USS WASHINGTON… The U.S. Navy had lost so many ships in … Continue reading

Out of Battery…

Gonna be out of connectivity for about a week due to work… Go read the folks on the sidebar while I try to repair the ice cream machine… And for Danny, HERE are some USCG recruiting posters from the 1960-70s… … Continue reading

Values???

Had dinner last week with an old friend and his family (we met 32 years ago this month in OCS), he’s a retired Navy Commander, former CO of a DDG and now working for the Navy as a SME… During … Continue reading

Here we go again…

The ‘new’ plan is on the street to cut the military… And it cuts the Army to PRE-WWII levels!!! And closes commissaries, cuts housing and other pay freezes/cuts/delays And THIS statement is pure Bulls**t… “Personnel costs reflect some 50% of … Continue reading