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May 22, 2016 Vic Socotra

Fireflies of the Night

Life and Island Times – 22 May 2016 Fireflies of the Night Most appropriately after yesterday’s relationship advice piece, Marlow and W encountered fireflies under the light of the full moon. It occurred after they had finished a wonderful meal at a friend’s house and decided to take a dip in his backyard pool. As […]

May 22, 2016 Vic Socotra

06 June 2016 NIP Battle of Midway Week Social at Historic Hickam Officer’s Club Our newest NIP chapter extends the warm spirit aloha to former JICPAC Commander and PACOM J2 RADM Paul Becker as he returns to the lovely islands! Following the opportunity to tour the site of Station HYPO at Building 1 at the […]

May 21, 2016 Vic Socotra

06 JUN Station HYPO Tour!

Battle of Midway Week, Pearl Harbor: 06 JUN Station HYPO Tour! (Steps down to the Dungeon at Building 1, Pearl Harbor Navy Shipyard. Photo Socotra). Rarely opened to the public, on the sixth of June (D-Day’s 72nd anniversary elsewhere) Station HYPOs hallowed spaces will be open for viewing! Seventy-four years ago, the last air attacks of […]

May 21, 2016 Vic Socotra

Wanna Get Laid?

Life and Island Times – May 21, 2016 Wanna Get Laid? If you are an island female, all you must do is leave the house. You will likely get picked up on your way to the bar. All that nonsense about face paint and trendy clothes is lost on the heterosexual island male. Just say […]

May 20, 2016 Vic Socotra

Battle of Midway Gala!

04 JUN 2016 The commemoration of Battle of Midway Week continues in Pearl Harbor: On the morning of the 4th of June, 1942, the round-the-clock efforts of CDR Joe Rochefort’s code-breakers in The Dungeon in the basement of the 14th Naval District Headquarters in Pearl Harbor paid off. The compelling estimate of Japanese intentions provides […]

May 19, 2016 Vic Socotra

Alma Mater

Life and Island Times – May 19, 2016 Alma Mater It had been 16 years since Marlow had been on the campus of his alma mater. Before that it was 1996, 1992, and 1991 then the big one in 1987 when he and the X had dropped off their #1, who had been born there […]

May 19, 2016 Vic Socotra

Midway Atoll Murals Unveiling

Battle of Midway Week: Midway Atoll Murals Unveiling Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor (The Midway Murals illustrate the broad mission sweep of Naval forces in the Pacific (clockwise from top left) with major surface combatants, JFK’s Patrol Torpedo Boat, aircraft carriers, CB construction efforts, Marine amphibious operations and the Silent Service). Battle of Midway Week […]

May 18, 2016 Vic Socotra

PACIFIC FLEET COMMEMORATES THE VICTORY AT MIDWAY, 2016

18 May 2016 Gentle Readers: I got in from Vegas last night and the Time Zone Trainwreck has hit me like a freight. Nice little place they have out there. With great pals and extended family, and the possibility that the Raiders and a hockey team are coming, and where the bars are open 24 […]

May 17, 2016 Vic Socotra

Le Vesuvio

Editor’s Note: The Las Vegas Bucket List is about complete, including some outdoor pizza grilling at Mike and Paula’s house last night under the stars. It is back to the grindstone via seat 10F again this afternoon, though on the whole, I think I would rather stay. I won’t dwell on that as I scurry […]

May 16, 2016 Vic Socotra

A Bold New Decade

Editor’ Note: Good trip so far. I like the neighborhood here, and my pals have a great extended family who were most welcoming. It has been added to the possibilities list for re-location after we know a little more about the nature of our collective fates in the Fall. The Las Vegas Bucket list thus […]