02 June 2016 Editor’s Note: Every Fly Off is the same, and all are different. My fighter buddy Bronco sent me this one, from his time as an F/A-18 Hornet Skipper, which sums it up nicely: “Ah, Channel Fever. I remember it so well. I know you might discuss fly-off next, so here’s my story […]

Editor’s Note: Bear with me. We will get everyone home tomorrow- well, maybe… Cruise Boxes (Navy Cruise Boxes: an open and shut case.) 08 APR 1990: The realization that things are almost over fir this cruise suddenly struck home with reality today. Yesterday, we were trapped in a time dimension in which there was no […]

31 May 2016 Editor’s Note: Yeah I know. I hate going back to work the day after a long weekend. The pile of stuff that needs to be done….oh well. That included feeding some old papers through the scanner to retrieve the end-bits of that story about the Med Cruise that spanned the end of […]

(Culpeper National Cemetery on a lovely Saturday in May. Our little county may have been the most fought over in all of Virginia back in the day). We were drinking white wine at The Copper Fish, my favorite place on historic East Davis Street in downtown Culpeper. I was going to stop at the Culpeper […]

I was watching the clock like a hawk. I had been up in the small hours, read and then dozed again with the vague sense that I had to be watchful about sleeping over the moment of the official opening of the pool. Tapping on the iPad to clear the email queue that accumulated overnight, […]

I was avoiding crowds, to the extent that I can, which is pretty easy since I m mostly working from home these days. That means I rarely see any coworkers on the way to the men’s room, which I have dutifully re-labeled as a multi-gender, inclusive facility to confront of the major issues of our […]

(Ground Zero monument at Nagasaki). I got lost this morning, looking at papers generated on another carrier in another ocean far away from the Wine Dark Sea. I was looking to see if I had written an account of the Fighter Squadron One-Five-One visit to Nagasaki when our ship was in Sasebo, on the island […]

I had a Milestone yesterday, a minor but important one, amid the landmines in the battlefield of about to turn 65 summers old. It wasn’t about the pool, though that is the milestone of Memorial Day, and I can’t wait for it to open. I won’t go into the first one- the dreaded Medicare, Parts […]

24 May 2016 Editor’s Note: Yeah, you can’t tell where the Daily is going to wind up on any particular morning. Yesterday we completed the agenda of events that will happen in Oahu to commemorate the Battle of Midway in 1942. I am proud to have been a 7th Fleet sailor in my time, and […]

Battle of Midway 07 JUN Formal Ceremony at PACFLT HQ When: 07 June 2016,1000-1100 Where: Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Building 250 Flagpole, Makalapa Crater Dress: Military- Summer Whites (Navy) Other: Duty uniform. Civilian: Aloha smart casual Questions to LTJG Manpreet Hotelling 474-4442 manpreet.hotelling@navy.mil They say that time heals all wounds. Ancient enemies can become friends, as […]