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I was invited to speak at a fighter symposium in Finland several years ago. I arrived in early March, tasked to give an unclassified lecture on 1v1 fighter combat. That’s a pretty short lecture, alas, but as I was there in conjunction with some other folks, we spent a week sightseeing and mixing with [...]  Point Hadji You can be going mach 2.0 in a fighter at 40,000 feet, and feel like you’re pasted in the sky. To really get the sensation of moving quickly, it’s important to have reference to the ground. The lower you go, the better that reference is visually defined, and the more gratifying the [...] So, it’s flat hatting stories you want, is it? Fine. Buckle in. This isn’t one of my own stories, of course. Like the trip through the Omani canyons I wrote about before, this story is about someone else’s experience. Because flat hatting is not only unprofessional, it’s also dangerous. And no one has ever [...] And stowing for sea. I appear to be heading down some horrible bathroom humor spiral. Not knowing where it will end, but hoping that this story satisfies the demon for yet a little while longer, please bear with me while I recount a rather absurd sea story. The year was 1998. Monica was out [...] The ship that I had the honor to sail aboard last year was the designated “night carrier” during Operation Iraqi Freedom. We had three carrier battle groups in the Gulf (and two more in the Med). To keep the pressure on at all times, one carrier had to serve as the night carrier, and [...] You’ve maybe read about it – Maslow’s hierarchy of needs : It starts with the physiological (think: food and shelter) and ramps up to self-actualization. I learned about it, for no reason I can now remember, while a plebe midshipman at the trade school on the Severn. We were led to believe that all [...] |
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