Editor’s note: I had dug out the following account of my first visit to Cannes, the jewel-like city on the Cote d’Azure and my first encounter with the vivacious and extraordinary Maitre Avery Glize-Kane. She is one of those women who captivates at first meeting, and stays with you in memory the rest of your […]

04 May 2016 Editor’s Note: If you think you are going to get incisive commentary on what happened last night when I was getting the coffeemaker set up for the morning ritual, that amazing concession and the realization of what it is likely to be like for the next six months, you are not going […]

02 DEC 1989: Day dawned raw and gray and blowing with 8-10ft seas; not that I could really see them. Had to watch it on the PLAT monitor. The announcement ran all day: “All hands remain clear of weather decks and sponsons due to high winds and heavy seas.” We had an aggressive flight program […]

OK, I know we are bouncing around a little bit, like on the waves during the Salt Water Summit, the one where the General Secretary of the Communist Part of the USSR decided that it was all about over, and he needed to salvage what he could out of the wreckage. President George H.W. Bush […]

“May Day” all over today. Not a peep out of the Soviets. Oh, wait, I know. But back in 1989 it was not so quiet…. Giant Snake Burrowing Rockets (1989 image of the Kirov-class Battlecruiser deployed to the med). 13 DEC: The nightmare begins again. I don’t know quite how to put this, but each […]

So, it was the annual NIP Spring Luncheon, known for the camaraderie shared with old shipmates, and the young people who are serving now in waters as ominous as any in recent years. there is a lot going on in Naval Intelligence, and the professional organization that was founded more than a quarter century ago […]