CNO wants more skilled, efficient Navy workforce http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=26381 {EXCERPT}, by Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes European edition, Wednesday, January 5, 2005 WASHINGTON — Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark said he wants to create a more skilled...

Over a few beers today with a former Marine and sailor from the Fifties, "NAS Oakland" was mentioned. The Marine recalled it was in the old section of what is now Oakland Internatinal Airport. One of the surviving buildings may still have Navy wings on it. Has anyone else heard of NAS OAKLAND?

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Marine Corps Equipment After Iraq at http://www.americanprogress.org/atf/cf/{E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}/MARINE_EQUIPMENT_REPORT.PDF Marine Corps Equipment After Iraq by Lawrence J. Korb and Max A. Bergmann of the Center for American Progress and Loren B. Thompson of the Lexington...

Stephane wrote in : The guestbook is now functionning correctly. Stephane GARNAUD Bonjour Fresh news from Artwork Navy site :

Looks like the need for more than single seat fighters is becoming an issue again. From the April Seapower: http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/apr_04_16.php "Boeing's Ted Herman, business development manager for the F-18 program, told Sea Power the Super Hornet tanker helps "extend the legs" of...

And if this occurred while Clinton was President, he would have been overjoyed that the press had not discovered his girlfriend(s) on Air Force One.

Hello folks, I just saw this link on yahoo news, I didn't see anything about it on www.news.navy.mil yet, probably soon. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_re_as/tsunami_helicopter_crash All the story says is an SH-60 with 10 onboard crashed in Indonesia, near Banda...

I just sent this to Fox News: Elenor Clift was just interviewed on Fox News Channel (by Laurie Due) concerning the ransom that may have been paid for the Italian journalist’s release by the Italian government. At the very end of the interview, Clift contended that a “trigger happy American...

wrote in message ... Trouble is you have to allow around 3 hours to get through the security and check in process on US flights these days but here in Europe I can get from London to Paris in...

http://www.washtimes.com/books/20041114-013756-5796r.htm Vietnam: The war that will not end Published November 14, 2004 Much more uplifting is Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN:0618273484 ) Mr. Hirsch is a skilled...

elmshoot- I know the Traning command put some more restrictions on us like no Flaps during the fight, so it was far game to throw them out in the fleet? BRBR Also I remember that NATOPS prohibited aero braking after landing but when I got to VC-12 OMARS it was considered normal to Aero...

Blue Angels' practice draws eyes to skies http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050923/LOCAL/209230320/1078/news {EXCERPT} Gainesville Sun, FL - 9 hours ago Other performers include two World War II-era bombers, a B-25 sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, and the Memphis...

Released material located: http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/liberty.html NSA states the only transmissions recorded were from 1429 to 1528. MW ------------------------------------- "As soon as movement begins, so does the fog of war" - Edward N. Luttwak

From the AP (via SDiego UT paper): start Aircraft carrier captain relieved of command after crash in Gulf By John J. Lumpkin ASSOCIATED PRESS 2:47 p.m. August 26, 2004 WASHINGTON –– The Navy is relieving the captain of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in connection with a collision...

Hi All - My Grandfather flew this 3-seat Torpedo bomber in the late 20's / early 30's. His logbooks have signitures by Lt. Halsey and Lt. Waldron! T4M's remainded in service into the early 40's. Does anyone know of an intact T4M, or parts, or plans? The NavAir Museum in Pensacola has only a...

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Coalition Air Warfare in the Korean War, 1950-1953 online at https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/Korea_Coalition_Warfare.pdf

Court Rejects Suit By Woman Who Was Navy Pilot (EXCERPT) By Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 13, 2003; Page A03 Former Navy Lt. Carey D. Lohrenz chose the life of a public figure when she signed up as one of the military's first two female combat pilots and cannot...

DEDICATED TO ALL WHO FLEW BEHIND ROUND ENGINES We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're ruining aviation and our hearing... A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot...