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(Previously) Well below him, down in the bowels of the ship in Combat, the operations specialist third class races his trackball’s cursor across the radar display to a glowing slice of target video. He checks IFF modes, airspeed and altitude. Nodding slightly, he updates the HAFU (hostile – assumed hostile – friendly – unknown) [...]  (Previously) 0630 – The alarm goes off in the squadron commander’s stateroom. His hand flails around in the darkness, trying to find it, trying to silence it. It is absurdly early for a carrier pilot at sea to wake up – he landed at 2330 last night, finished debriefing at 0100, wrote a brief [...] Several months ago I wrote a rather long, somewhat overwrought response to a question about the War on Terror that had been asked of me by a liberal friend: Can we win? In essence, I concluded that we could win, and that we would, as soon as the enemy realized that we would not [...] Several months ago I wrote a rather long, somewhat overwrought response to a question about the War on Terror that had been asked of me by a liberal friend: Can we win? In essence, I concluded that we could win, and that we would, as soon as the enemy realized that we would not [...] (Previously) 0540 – The Officer of the Deck checks his watch again. He’s been looking at it ever 90 seconds or so for the last half hour. Within the last 5 minutes, this rate has increased to every 15 to 20 seconds. He scans the Captain’s night orders by the binnacle light once more. [...] A day in the life aboard an aircraft carrier at sea. 0330 – the alarm goes off in a coffin rack in the Ops berthing. A hand gropes in the darkness behind the rack curtains to silence the alarm. The curtains serve as a demarcation line – they mark this space as the owners. [...]
Transonic shock wave build up. Helps to visualize the transonic drag rise . Which, for all of those at home, has nothing whatsoever to do with new age music, or cross-dressing fashion. Just in case that wasn’t clear. All the airflow in front of the shock wave is supersonic, while all [...] I was thinking the other day about how much of the interest in militaria tends to accrue to the gear, rather than the gear-er. For my part, I’ve always thought that it was the people who made the Navy great (and other people, although only occasionally, who can make it miserable). We spend long [...] |
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