Congrats, Nose. Tie-clip, heh…Archive for 'Sea Stories'
Event Six
I really liked it when this place was humming, and I’m disappointed at the scarcity of posts these days. Makes you appreciate how hard Lex works to keep us entertained.
I’m gonna try to do my part…
I started this a long time ago, after posting a story about Event Four. I have one request from those [...]
Posted: October 9th, 2008 under Flying, Military, Sea Stories.
Comments: 15
In harms way
While posting about agriculture I remembered a tidbit of information from my youth, that the most dangerous job in the world was on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Taking a fairly distand second was being a farmer. Which, I was, in a youthful and immortal sort of way, so naturally the Navy seemed [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2008 under Sea Stories.
Comments: 10
Flightdeck Friday - T-2 Buckeye Memorial Day Edition
Sometime this summer an orange and white jet that bears a passing resemblance to a guppy or bullfrog, will drop out of a white-hot Arizona sky to the scorching pavement at Davis-Monthan AFB - aka the Boneyard. It will be the final flight, at least in Navy colors, of an aircraft that almost all [...]
Posted: May 23rd, 2008 under Flying, Sea Stories.
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Welcome Aboard
I thought a sea story might be appropriate to my first post here on The Flight Deck.
When I finished my apprenticeship training, I had orders the the Vinson. She was already underway. I proceeded to travel from the US to the Philippines. Was bumped off a flight to Singapore and instead ended up on a [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Sea Stories.
Comments: 4
A Piece of History
I went over to the Midway Museum early on Friday for the Vets for Freedom event and found one of the best parts of a visit to the old girl–a docent who served on Midway when she was active.
And this one was an aviator.
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Posted: March 16th, 2008 under Flying, History, Sea Stories.
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Reflections: “If there are enough shovels to go around…”
“…everybody’s going to make it.†- Thomas K. Jones, 1982
Counterveil vs. Countervalue…
Decapitating strikes…
Winning a protracted nuclear war…
Nuclear calculus…
These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980’s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval Postgraduate School. Leading the [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 under History, Sea Stories.
Comments: 1
Rhythms … Meet Dangerous Dan’s Diner
Being, like all good denizens who inhabit The Flight Deck, a loyal fan of Rhythms, I was just wondering …Â
How much would you pay for what appears to be the civillian version of a Barney Clark?
 I dunno …. looks a little pricey to me.
Too bad, so close and yet so far away…
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Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Food, Sea Stories.
Comments: 10
Reflections: Kiev and The Thousand Mile (or so) Strike – Part I
With the recent press of the Soviet Russian carrier group coming out of hibernation for a Med sortie, we thought it was about time for another Reflections series - this time finding our gallant scribe back at sea after his first shore tour at Naval Postgrad School. This time he is on a second sea [...]
Posted: December 12th, 2007 under Flying, Sea Stories.
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DV
Wherein I send Dear Michelle into uncontrollable fits of envy, while soliciting tips/advice from the assembled company…
Sorry, Michelle. I’d stick you in my suitcase if one was allowed.Â
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Posted: December 5th, 2007 under Sea Stories.
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More Out From Under the Mattress
We now have an answer to my “Where’s MEGEN?” question.
So… following Nose’s lead, I humbly offer some MEGEN-related ship pr0n.
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Posted: November 27th, 2007 under Flying, Sea Stories.
Comments: 2