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The USS Enterprise was formally retired today in Norfolk, Virginia. The 1,123-foot (342-metres) long Enterprise was commissioned in 1961 with eight nuclear reactors on board, and the next year was deployed to participate in a blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since then, it has played a role in a number [...] I just saw this U.S. Navy on the Olympics coverage. I’d never seen it before but I see it’s a few months old. Anyway… I hope this goes out on global coverage because the rest of the world needs to hear it. Good stuff and extra “America hell yeah!” points for Keith David.
The U.S. Navy is claiming it will have a laser weapon ready for use in 4 years. From Wired’s Danger Room: The dream of sailors, nerds and sailor-nerds everywhere is on the verge of coming true, senior Navy technologists swear. Within four years, they claim they’ll have a working prototype of a laser cannon, [...] World’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, ‘the Big E’ makes final voyage, http://fxn.ws/zvx0LM Farewell Enterprise and Godspeed. Share on Facebook Here’s a story from FOXNews about a Navy program called Sinkex (Sinking Exercise) where they tow old ships put to sea and blow the bejeezus out of them. Guess who wants them to stop this exercise? That’s right… Gaia worshipers. Navy documents state that among the toxic substances left onboard the America were [...] The Gaia Cult is at it again… Suing the U.S. Navy to prevent sonar usage… for the whales. http://yhoo.it/zD0AYd Share on Facebook Above is Lt. Cdr. (USN) Minter Dial who died in a Japanese POW camp in the Phillipines in 1945. He gave his Naval Academy ring to a fellow POW to give to his wife Lisa after the War… well… Smithsonian Magazine has the story of this ring…. and it’s a helluva ride. Thank God [...] Even though Seal Team 6 doesn’t really exist, the Navy challenged the Disney trademark of that name by filing its own trademark application on May 13 according to FOXNews. And of course in a fight between this non-existent Seal team 6 and the House of Mouse we all know who wins… Navy spokeswoman Amanda [...] The US Navy’s laser weapons program (“The Alan Parson’s Project” if they’d had a sense of humor) continues apace… From Wired’s Danger Room blog: Fewer than three years after the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth up to $98 million to build the Maritime Laser Demonstrator, it’s proven able to cause “catastrophic failure” [...] US Navy Capt. Own Honors is in a speck of trouble it seems: A top officer aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier broadcast to his crew a series of profanity-laced comedy sketches in which he uses gay slurs, mimics masturbation and opens the shower curtain on women pretending to bathe together, a newspaper reported. The Virginian-Pilot [...] A couple of weeks ago I posted about the Navy’s testing of a railgun. It seems they have another use for the railgun… launching fighters and drones from aircraft carriers. The action is about 1:50 in… notice how fast that thing gets off the ground… Here’s a link to the full story at Wired.com’s [...] This is awesome. Story here on the U.S. Navy’s new toy — the Railgun. From The New York Daily News: Say hello to the Navy’s little friend. Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the [...] The remains of Gulf War I pilot and MIA Scott Speicher have finally been identified. The Department of Defense has positively identified the remains of a U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in the opening hours of the 1991 Gulf War. CBS News Pentagon correspondent David Martin reports that remains found in Iraq [...] A US Navy officer has filed a sexual harassment complaint with The Miami Herald against one of its reporters. I’m not a fan of sexual harassment law in general — at least the hostile work environment area, but I find the irony delicious in any case. As with Hank Skippy Gates… anytime left/liberals can hoisted [...] |
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