if it's friday....
Zen, there-goes-my-Indian-summer edition.
Big Pimpin': Valour-IT's annual fundraiser.
Hanging with the Undertall
* Philippines: handshake gone awry
* Cambodia: teaching the really useful stuff
* Kyrgyzstan: coat donations: zipper up | puppy pile | the LT shows off his artwork
* USA: Daddy's home: three-play & dressed for the occasion | the Navy's starting 'em young
Vehicle Pr0n
* A sounder of Warthogs at sunrise.
* Is the master chief kite-flying?
* Apache throwing off flares
* The new riverine command vehicle gets a robust test drive and looks pretty at rest.
* You land where you can.
* Now you can say that you've seen a carrier group pull a u-turn.
* Bright-tailed and bushy-eyed?
* USS Leyte Gulf glamor shot.
* F-15 launch: head on & lots of thrust
* Pave Hawk in the turn.
Shooting Things (and other mess-making)
* Mortar practice turns a little psychadelic.
* The rifle practice was a little disco, too.
* Fire Dust in the hole!
* Night work on the .50 cal
* The Navy held a sinking exercise this week, dispatching the former USNS Saturn. "Sinking exercise," of course, is an excuse to fire all of the fun stuff for effect: Standard 2 missile | Harpoon missile going & going & gone | 5-inch Mark 45/54-caliber lightweight gun (and the brass policing afterward) | MK-38 25mm chain gun | Phalanx weapons system | M240 machine gun | .50 cal | and our target, aflame but as yet unsunk
Miscellany
* Loading up the Chinook.
* The Marines got a new Commandant this week. Gen. Conway handing over command to Gen. Amos as SMMC Kent looks on.
* It's awesome when overseas deployments turn into family visits.
* Fore off the aft deck.
* It's a step up from hammocks, but not a really big step.
* Shooter says go!
* San Diego night view.
* It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A.
* "Never forget" is not yet forgotten.
* Your maintenance evolution earworm of the week. [video]
Big Pimpin': Valour-IT's annual fundraiser.
Hanging with the Undertall
* Philippines: handshake gone awry
* Cambodia: teaching the really useful stuff
* Kyrgyzstan: coat donations: zipper up | puppy pile | the LT shows off his artwork
* USA: Daddy's home: three-play & dressed for the occasion | the Navy's starting 'em young
Vehicle Pr0n
* A sounder of Warthogs at sunrise.
* Is the master chief kite-flying?
* Apache throwing off flares
* The new riverine command vehicle gets a robust test drive and looks pretty at rest.
* You land where you can.
* Now you can say that you've seen a carrier group pull a u-turn.
* Bright-tailed and bushy-eyed?
* USS Leyte Gulf glamor shot.
* F-15 launch: head on & lots of thrust
* Pave Hawk in the turn.
Shooting Things (and other mess-making)
* Mortar practice turns a little psychadelic.
* The rifle practice was a little disco, too.
* Fire Dust in the hole!
* Night work on the .50 cal
* The Navy held a sinking exercise this week, dispatching the former USNS Saturn. "Sinking exercise," of course, is an excuse to fire all of the fun stuff for effect: Standard 2 missile | Harpoon missile going & going & gone | 5-inch Mark 45/54-caliber lightweight gun (and the brass policing afterward) | MK-38 25mm chain gun | Phalanx weapons system | M240 machine gun | .50 cal | and our target, aflame but as yet unsunk
Miscellany
* Loading up the Chinook.
* The Marines got a new Commandant this week. Gen. Conway handing over command to Gen. Amos as SMMC Kent looks on.
* It's awesome when overseas deployments turn into family visits.
* Fore off the aft deck.
* It's a step up from hammocks, but not a really big step.
* Shooter says go!
* San Diego night view.
* It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A.
* "Never forget" is not yet forgotten.
* Your maintenance evolution earworm of the week. [video]