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I gave in to the inevitable and started a Twitter account,
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. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but you can follow if you want. #firstworldproblems
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MAD Christmas Carols
A couple years back, I wrote a post about some funny parodies of Christmas carols that had appeared in MAD Magazine back in the 70s that ha...
Adventures With Skimmers
This picture of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulling into Pearl Harbor yesterday caught my attention: It got me thinking of my time on a carr...
Virginia-Class Submarine Homeports
Senator Inouye has confirmed that USS Hawaii (SSN 776) will be shifting homeports to Pearl Harbor next year, ahead of the planned arrival ...
USS Texas Surfaces Through Ice
USS Texas (SSN 775) recently became the first Virginia -class submarine to operate in the Arctic; here's photographic evidence : This oc...
Rate The Port Visits, Get An Award!
Not much submarine news lately (as indicated by the length of time that's passed since my last post), so I dug around and found a couple...
Guest Post: USS Secota YTM-415 Incident
[An earlier post, with video, of the incident is here .] Guest post from Tango-14: March 22, 1986 the U.S. Navy tug USS Secota YTM-415 – whi...
Family-Grams
A few days ago, I had a great visit from an old shipmate on USS Topeka (SSN 754) who was passing through town. (An EM2(SS) when I left Topek...
Submarine Hall Of Fame
Having never been to Submarine Learning Facility Norfolk (and having only pulled into Norfolk once, for two days), I never knew there was a ...
The 2006 MilBloggies
Now that the Oscars are over, we can turn our attention to the really important awards -- the 2006 MilBloggies . You have to register with t...
Boito's Mefistofele
"Dio di pietà ! son essi!""Lontano, lontano, lontano"Here are two selections from Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele. ...
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