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 […]

06 Dec: Up early, hangover not withstanding, to read the message boards and plot our escape. Not to be. DCAG insisting we stay to support the possibility of a Distinguished Visitor Visit, which didn’t occur. Biding my time, I watched Star Trek in my stateroom until 1430, when I finally wandered back up to CAG […]

At the AFSOUTH Club, I tried to get on a phone and then, worse, when I did I had to try to figure out how to use it. By the time I cracked the code and get a Transatlantic line there is no one home to speak to. The Italians can’t hold a candle to […]

Editor’s Note: I had a chance to find out the thousand-dollar surprise for April, and didn’t even have to wait until the end of the month. New spectacles are the order of the day, since I dropped the perfectly serviceable ones from the night table and they hit with precisely the perfect impact point to […]