Tag Archives: aegis cruiser
High Stakes Game of Chicken on the Korean Peninsula
The USS George Washington and her Battle Group arrived in the Yellow Sea The game is on. The U.S. Navy and South Korean Navy task forces are moving into position, the South Korean Military is on its highest peacetime alert … Continue reading
Filed under Korean Conflicts, Military, national security, Navy Ships, US Navy
Forerunners of the Next Generation: The New Mexico Class, USS New Mexico, USS Idaho and USS Mississippi
New Mexico BB-40 in 1930 before moderization The Battleships of the Nevada and Pennsylvania classes had established American ship design as second to none in 1916. At the same time the US Navy was planning advances in engineering systems that … Continue reading
Filed under History, Military, Navy Ships, world war two in the pacific
D-1 Bobbing About, We Made Too Many Wrong Mistakes and Thank God for Good Managers
June 5th 1944 should have been D-Day. Instead because of a ferocious storm that descended across the English Channel it was a day from hell on the seas for the assault troops embarked aboard troop transports, landing ships and landing … Continue reading
Filed under Baseball, History, Loose thoughts and musings, Military, Navy Ships, PTSD
