The Flight Deck

Thank goodness for my handy dandy site meter! Mulling through it this last evening last I noticed that someone had spent a fair bit of time and quite a few page views on Free Falling for just coming off a Google image search. Curious, I clicked on their entry page. And reminisced through this post. [...]

My blog perusing is fairly limited and began when I was referred to Lex’s place and I spent the better part of three weeks reading every thing on it. OK I’m obsessive that way. Well my one and only daughter, of whom I am very proud, has started her own blog and seems to be [...]

My shipmate Dave (who goes by the name of Uncle Cobs), is just starting his Individual Augmentee (IA) training prior to a one year deployment to Iraq. He set up a blog over here to keep us up-to-date on his progress. Interesting stuff for us Navy-types. Drop by and say “Hi” if you get a [...]

Third annual Milblog Awards.  Neptunus Lex. Don’t forget to vote. ‘Nuff said. Update: Lex is in third place, out of only five or six nominees. He really should be doing better than this. Hello, is anyone out there? Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Preaching to the choir, here. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

It’s a funny thing, inspiration. Lex’s Long War metaphor? inspired me to comment – not altogether unusual – but it also inspired me to think and write about other things unrelated to the topic at hand. Like books, and the things you remember. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Don’t ask me to explain how I it happened, but I am in the process of conducting one-on-one interviews with the senior leadership of the 3rd Infantry Division, currently deployed to central Iraq. My first interview (in two parts) is up at The Castle. For those who might be interested, I posted impressions at my [...]

OK, so this is a self-serving post – we’re allowed one per year, right?  I am in love. Head-over-heels, totally besotted.  Weak in the knees kind of love.  With the little man pictured here.  Meet – Kalen.  He is my first Great Nephew, son to my niece Rachel and her husband Jason, aka Jay.  This [...]

The fundraiser for Valour-IT ended a week ago and we’re still tabulating things and tying up loose ends. In the meantime, some things that might interest you… The preliminary totals are up. Mary Katherine Ham–she who sends so many hearts aflutter ’round these parts–has a superb article about the impact of Valour-IT on laptop recipients, [...]

Would you be surprised to learn that a United States Government Accountability Report released yesterday cited major failures by the US Customs and Border Protection at their ‘Ports of Entry”, with the result that “several thousand” individuals who were inadmissible under the immigration law, were nevertheless permitted to enter the country? This despite “significant progress [...]