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There are very few things to admire about a 0500 brief on a Saturday morning. The Weapons School lost some sorties during the course of the week due to weather, and quality being the measure by which all things are reckoned, they would have to be made up. But still. Fifteen degrees Fahrenheit on [...]  Testing continues on an electromagnetic weapon that could hurl a 40-pound projectile hundreds of miles from Navy ships offshore towards, well: Everything (Video at the link) - “As you can see, it represents a significant increase in range,” Roger Ellis, the Office of Naval Research’s electromagnetic railgun program manager, said in a conference call [...] I’m on the early page it seems, with the 0515 brief burned into my forehead. And the late go as well, so long as your definition of “late” is expansive enough to admit a 1215 brief, 1400 take-off, and 1500 land. With the debrief to follow. Well within the limits of crew day, mind. [...] Very much in the eye of the beholder, according to the admittedly partisan Hinderaker, who surveys the legacy media’s response to “Act of Valor“: (Quite) a few movies have been made about post-September 11 warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. Virtually every one of them has been shameless propaganda. You probably didn’t [...] In our history, courtesy of Navy and USNI: On March 3, 1814, Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy arrived in the Chesapeake Bay aboard HMS Marlborough. Cockburn gained notoriety for his aggressive inland operations as his forces burned private homes, businesses, and mercantile establishments during Admiral Sir John Warren’s Chesapeake Bay [...] An otherwise sensibly written article about the contributions of special forces in our quotidian bug hunts, with a dreadful title. The SEALs, like the rest of the military, serve at the pleasure of the president. Who at the moment, happens to be Barack Obama. But it is the office they serve, and the country [...] So, landed around 1515 yesterday in Seattle to low clouds and soft rain. Stepped off the curb at the rental car lot to cold wind and puddles. Which the latter are apparently a phenomenon that exhibits itself after a prolonged period of precipitation. After a bit of head-scratching, I had to admit a previous [...] There’s a lot of things I miss about being in the Navy, and in naval aviation particularly. This, not so much. Long time readers of these pages may recollect that their host’s naval career was nearly cut short, very early on. Which it had something to do with carrying live air-to-air ordnance while practicing spar-bombing with blue death, the name we used to classify inert, or practice air-to-ground ordnance. The thinking at the time being [...] Until moral improves: As the Obama administration reorients its military strategy toward Asia and the vital maritime trade routes in the Pacific, the bulk of the responsibility will fall on the Navy, which was largely sidelined during the land wars of the last decade. But the Navy will have to perform its mission in [...] |
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