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I thought about doing this before my wife and I went to Scotland a month ago but never got around to it. Just checking to see if members here are interested in sharing vacation/holiday experiences, ask questions about upcoming destinations, and give answers about places you've been. Providing...

On this date 35 years ago, the USS Iowa suffered a gun casualty killing 47 sailors. The investigation was an embarrassment for the US Navy. Fairly new CNO Admiral Frank Kelso ordered a new one. I think of this incident and others every year between 14-20 April, historically America's most...

The Barque Eagle moored at NAB Little Creek yesterday. I saw her in person a couple times when stationed at Norfolk.

The article has a few good pics and a video. The New Jersey is underway (dead stick of course) for the first time in 25 years. The Moran tugs took her to Philly were she was built at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and commissioned on 7 Dec 1942. The ship will rest in dry dock and receive much...

General Gray, 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps passes at 95 years old. Among other things, he is known for posing in cammies for his official portrait...

I plagiarized part of this from my post three years ago. I was there 23 years ago. Surely you all know this but I'll post anyway. The president's address to congress is a constitutional requirement. The first address of his term is known as addressing a joint session of congress. The years after...

SECNAV has named our newest hospital ship, Bethesda. I like it. The article has a quote from the Navy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Darin Via. The SG was one of my A school students in the middle 80s...

Is there any interest in a thread where medical issues can be discussed not resulting in a recommendation to post in the DoDMERB thread? Things like SSRI use, torn ACLs in senior year, or dysmenorrhea can be discussed and questions asked and personal experiences passed on. We have physicians...

I was stationed at Camp Lejeune the first time in the late 70s to early 80s which falls in the Camp Lejeune contaminated water period. I filled out a survey annually for a few years and got a call one summer from the administrator of the survey. He told me I had been exposed to so many things...

Any baseball fans here? Braves vs. Astros in the 117th World Series. Coverage starts at 8 p.m. Tuesday night on Fox with Joe Buck on the mic. I'm a life-long Braves fan and am happy to see them back after a 20 year drought. I think the Braves have overcome their playoff woes and will take the...

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A good man and general has lost the battle to cancer. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/raymond-odierno-army-general-who-commanded-iraq-dies-67-n1281172

I figured I'd take this Scheller story to a place other than the "Afghanistan in the rear view mirror" thread. I've been to that Brig. Not a nice place. No, I wasn't an inmate. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-officer-stuart-scheller-brig/

Friedman went on to say that some of the conditions imposed on Hinckley "probably weren't necessary" and "if he hadn't tried to kill a president, he probably would have been granted unconditional release a long time ago." Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play...

Happy 74th Birthday younger sibling. My dad spent nine years in the world's greatest Air Force and like many who got out after that long, later said he wished he had stayed in. My earliest memories are from base housing at Pope Air Force base where my uncle Arnold was stationed next door at Ft...

A monster is headed for Louisiana. I-10 West is jammed but people should still leave. Hopefully they will start contraflow soon.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/pentagon-metro-shooting-officer-injured-multiple-shot-as-pentagon-remains-on-lockdown

Navy Secretary Daniels is the name sake for Cup o' Joe. He was a man of despicable views with the power to carry them out. They want to tear down his house in the name of social justice but the real story is, I believe, related to profit. Sure, when the house goes down everybody will cheer that...