Monthly Archives: June 2009

The people are speaking

Posted on June 15, 2009 by

The question now is, who is listening? For some reason, I don’t think we are… White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a written statement that the U.S. is watching the situation. “Like the rest of the world, we were … Continue reading →

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You don’t see that every day

Posted on June 15, 2009 by

It seems the Chinese are once again trying to pull on their big boy pants. In what a U.S. military official calls an “inadvertent encounter,” a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John … Continue reading →

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Whiskey Tango Friday

Posted on June 12, 2009 by

I’m not a smart man, but THIS is just plain stupid. the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior … Continue reading →

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Midway – or – How not to use submarines

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

Everyone’s all-a-tizzy about the Anniversary of Midway. (Notably the aviators of the blogosphere) Big Battle. Pretty epic actually. Definitely the turning point in the war, not so much because we sank four of Japan’s carriers, but because the Land of … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on June 3, 2009 by

Clearly the Navy has a public-relations problem, since the taxpayers have opted for “change,” including less military spending. Shaping public opinion to support the current force structure poses a daunting task, tacitly admitted in the Navy’s official PR vehicle, an … Continue reading →

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