There I was no s**t… er… never mind… I wasn’t there, there aren’t any pictures, and nobody saw anything… Yeah, yeah, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! Best story of the night, Skipper Walker, VP-4 CO in the … Continue reading
Category Archives: honoring our military
Met up with a few folks last night, and grabbed a quick bite, and one thing that we’re all suffering from is trying to remember some folks names… Granted we’ve gotten older, and nobody had a cruise book handy, but … Continue reading
I’m out of pocket for a few days, going to a Navy symposium to catch up with old fiends err… friends and catch up what’s going on in my old community. This is the sound of my people! 😉 Not … Continue reading
‘Nuff said… … Continue reading
In honor of the last Doolittle Raider’s passing… This one is only 9 minutes of official film. This one is one of the newsreels that was shown in theaters. And this is a write up of the raid, HERE from … Continue reading
The last Doolittle Raider has passed away. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole, the last surviving member of World War II’s Doolittle Raiders, died Tuesday in Texas at the age of 103. The president of the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association told The Air Force Times that … Continue reading
This one is 24 minutes long, but it will bring a tear to your eye… One family’s connection thanks to an airplane. I hope you enjoyed it, and they truly were the greatest generation! Thankfully there is another generation that … Continue reading
One wonders what stories they told… They had to have been in their 90s at the time this was taken. I also wonder what they thought about the advances in weapons! From cap and ball to semi-auto pistols and rifles, … Continue reading
Apparently the Senate has passed a bill called the Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act, S.2679, the “Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act of 2018,” which amends the Small Business Act to provide veteran-owned small businesses access to surplus property owned by … Continue reading
As the US Navy winds down to its last P-3 squadron, many of us look back on our time in the Orion and remember the good times, shipmates, and the many places we operated from… And we remember too, the … Continue reading