Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The whales blow in unison off the port bow to the delight of the visitors and film crew.
Synchronized whales! heh
It’s easy to see that the Navy has the BEST cell coverage, with 8 bars… er, pubs, saloons. We also offer the fewest dropped calls, but we’re not talking about our bombs.
FY07 year end budget festivities. Use it or loose it in FY08.
Whe I was in VA-145(A-6E Intruder) many years ago. Suck on that A-7′s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USS Stennis’ Cruise of the Land-locked States, 2007: First stop-Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Bellagio fountain in the background.
Pilot hits the red button, news at 11.
Poor Bubbleheads! Due to the cutbacks all they get to eat nowadays are beans…
Sid wins!
That’s what we refer to in the business as a “Shack!”
N
Back in the day, Lex, that stick would have required only one jet and been twice as impressive!
Oyster,
Yeah, yeah – and they would have called it “precision bombing” for having successfully struck the Pacific
Re 10 & 11
CATFIGHT!!
PS I gotta agree with Oyster. That demo probably took 4 jets plus a spare and 2 X KC-135.
Wait, I thought they only did that with B-25s…
When questioned, the Pilot whined, “But, all I did was hit the ‘SLAVO’ (no misspelling!) button!”
(This really happened. Names and crew position changed to protect the guilty)
New Iranian smart bomb has learning disability.
Reuters: Greenpeace sub skipper Trey Hougar commented after the maiden cruise of their latest Enviro-submersible: “We’ve got a ways to go with our stealth operations as we shadow the nefarious U.S. Fleet.”
As part of the Stennis’ Tiger Cruise, this participant, age 12, enjoys her turn at the Mk19 automatic 40mm grenade launcher.
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/mk19.htm
“Suppressive fire was my favorite part!”
(yes, my goddaughter did go on the Stennis Tiger Cruise with her AW dad.
“Whattaya mean you dropped a decimal point in the bomb aiming software?!? Put it back!”
…where a miss truly is as good as a mile.
Neiman Marcus has unveiled the latest version of the classic Milton Bradley game “Battleship” for the 2007 Christmas Book. This version should retail for around $5,000,000,000
Good one Jep
G-3! Miss! G-4! Miss! G-5! Miss! G-6! Miss……
This is what we have to do now to “help” the skimmer ASW force and land based P-3s to get a general idea where to look for us. The red flare thing, all back full bells and aux noise makers just weren’t helping.
Goin Deep
BKT(SS)
I will admit that, after becoming a Lemooreon, it was a revelation to learn that on the (cough) off chance that one gooned up one’s pattern, the option remained to be able to be at virtually any old dive angle and still get a bomb – A BOMB – purt durn near to where my diamond had been dropped. But still, it was cool dropping em’ a dozen at a time.
And while you were grabbing a slider, the Tigers were still out there watching me bag traps!
QUICK! QUICK!
MAN THE ROW BOATS!
FRESH FISH OFF THE STARBOARD SIDE!
AP Wire – Arabian Sea – Apparently one sailor has had enough with shipboard food in the gulf…
Apparently one sailor has had enough with shipboard food in the gulf
I hear fricasseed Sea Snake is a great way to cheer up a bored pallet….
You skipped a *what* across the lake? Back in my day, we had to make do with rocks…
Billy Mitchell was wrong…