Today, and forty years ago: 23 January, 1979 Wanchi Cherry Boy It all makes me feel a little sullied this morning, listening to the blather of absurdities we are supposed to believe. I have no idea if we are headed for times as troubling as 1968 was, and while exhilarating at times, mostly it was […]

Gentle Readers, An alert reader noted that Point Loma stood bridge watches on big ships. Most intelligence officers did not stand underway watches, since they are (were?) commissioned as Special Duty- Intelligence officers. That was not true in the Amphib Fleet. The leadership there felt an officer was an officer, and I recall visiting big-deck […]

Editor’s Note: Pt. Loma’s piece on Hong Kong really brought back memories from salty old WESTPAC sailors. The events this week in Hong Kong- ten dead, so far- makes these recollections that much more precious. I personally was skewered for failing to mention famed Jimmy’s Kitchen in Central was snubbed. Not true. Just visited on […]

“In no engagement in its entire history has the United States Navy shown more gallantry, guts and gumption than in the two morning hours between 0730 and 0930 off Samar.” – Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, “History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II.” Earlier this year, I suggested to then-CNO Admiral Richardson that […]

OK, OK, a dollar short and late. I am distracted by the level of discourse back up North, the Turkish invasion of Syria (Kurds, anyway) and all the rest of the hysteria that will dog us the next year. The turkey flock made their third incursion on the property. I think some of them might […]