Monthly Archives: November 2010

November 19, 2010

Fly the Friendly Skies….The TSA Way

Well, I used to be a frequent flier because of my military assignments. Back in those days I became quite good at making sure that I presented as little trouble to TSA screeners as possible. I planned and organized every … Continue reading →

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November 17, 2010

PT and Bumping into Old Friends at Camp Swampy and Getting Carded at Applebee’s

The Main Gate at Camp Swampy One nickname that Camp LeJeune North Carolina bears is “Camp Swampy.” This is because of the marsh like conditions of some of the base, the normally abundant rainfall and the propensity of said rainfall … Continue reading →

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November 15, 2010

Wings of Gold: U. S. Navy Carrier Aircraft 1935-1941

Curtiss BF2C Goshawks (US Navy Photo) As the United States Navy built up its Carrier Force in the mid to late 1930s it continued to develop aircraft specifically designed to operate from aircraft carriers. It continued its development of fighter, … Continue reading →

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November 14, 2010

Norfolk Tides 2010: The Season in Review

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill … Continue reading →

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November 12, 2010

The War to End All Wars….and a Peace to end all Peace

It was the War to end all war On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the guns fell silent across Western Europe and the war which had killed 16 million soldiers, sailors and civilians and … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 9-11 attacks, adolf hitler, armistice day, belleau wood, cambrai, chateau thierry, cold war, france, freikorps, french army mutiny, great britain, imperial germany, imperial russia, kaiser wilhelm, korean war, marshal petain, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, nazi germany, nazi party, nsdap, osama bin laden, passchendaele, paul von hindenburg, russian revolution, soviet defeat in afghanistan, soviet union, the aisne, the holocaust, the marne, the somme, treaty of versailles, trench warfare, verdun, vietnam war, vimy ridge, war on terror, weimar germany, weimar hyper-inflation, western front, wilson's 14 points, woodrow wilson, world war i, world war ii, ypres

November 11, 2010

Veterans Day 2010: Counting the Cost of War

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” General Robert E. Lee Veterans Day had become a rather somber occasion for me over the past decade and since returning from Iraq in … Continue reading →

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November 10, 2010

Happy 235th Birthday Marines!

In 1775 a committee of the Continental Congress met at Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern to draft a resolution calling for two battalions of Marines able to fight for independence at sea and on shore. The resolution was approved on November 10, … Continue reading →

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November 9, 2010

How Bad Can “America’s Team” Get? The Dallas Cowboy Season Collapses and Wade Phillips is Fired

Wade Phillips in Defeat (NFL.com photo) Let’s get this straight. I am not a Dallas Cowboys fan. In fact I just find football mildly interesting and I pretty much will watch it to keep from watching the talking heads on … Continue reading →

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November 8, 2010

100 Years of Navy Aviation: Part One the Aircraft Carriers

Eugene Ely makes the first takeoff from USS Birmingham on November 14th 1910 On a blustery November 14th in the year 1910 a young civilian pilot hailing from Williamsburg Iowa became the first man to fly an aircraft off the … Continue reading →

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November 7, 2010

Fall Back? Why can’t we do this Every Week?

I love this time of year when we get an extra hour to stay up late instead of getting an extra hour of sleep. I wonder sometimes why we couldn’t do this every week. Of course I know that this … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: November 2010

Fly the Friendly Skies….The TSA Way

PT and Bumping into Old Friends at Camp Swampy and Getting Carded at Applebee’s

Wings of Gold: U. S. Navy Carrier Aircraft 1935-1941

Norfolk Tides 2010: The Season in Review

The War to End All Wars….and a Peace to end all Peace

Veterans Day 2010: Counting the Cost of War

Happy 235th Birthday Marines!

How Bad Can “America’s Team” Get? The Dallas Cowboy Season Collapses and Wade Phillips is Fired

100 Years of Navy Aviation: Part One the Aircraft Carriers

Fall Back? Why can’t we do this Every Week?

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