The Navy today is facing the same problems that the Navy faced in the interwar period — really the same problems faced by any peacetime naval force throughout history.

The good news is that it’s fixable. The bad news is that it takes a lot for the Navy to fix anything.

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disney had an episode where a mouse in 'shape and drape' stole slim-fit mickey's girlfriend

is there a lesson here?

Fun fact about F-117 stealth testing

This set-up was used to test the radar signature of the F-117 during development.

The model was originally placed on a circular test stand pole, but the pole itself had such a high radar signature that it was interfering with results.

So…

Determined warrior just spent the morning maintaining damage control equipment. His wife can’t wait for him to come home. He laughed when he was invited to the bridge on her behalf, “I talk to her everyday, but please tell her ‘I love you’.” Mission complete! #ThisIsTheWay …

We were delayed, but…my passengers got a SpaceX Double Play!

A little after takeoff on a transcon from the East Coast to SFO, we picked up chatter on guard frequency about a rocket launch soon. Pieced together it’s out of FL, which usually means to the East

We were too far…

Just 10 streams carry 95% of all river-borne plastic into the ocean. If you want to fix ocean pollution here is a good starting point. Excellent book on the matter by Hannah Ritchie: buff.ly/3xypWw8

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Hero. He made up for the lack of partying and drinking after coming back to Earth

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Today in Tehran, Iran, the city is under the watchful eye of the “morality” police, following the announcement of an extensive deployment of forces to crack down on unveiled women.

This measure is a response to an order from Khamenei, who emphasized in a recent speech that the…

❗️ Zelenskyy mentioned two problems that create an incentive for Russia

Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, calls the artificial shortage of weapons that Ukraine is experiencing as the first problem, which is created, first of all, by the gap…

Fact of the Day: The Hurricane was made from cardboard egg boxes as there was a shortage of metal and wood during WW1 in 1926, Engineers later removed the eggs to save weight which increased the range but lower protection level for the pilot.

Photographed from a Canberra

Foxes were once humans’ best friends, study says...

In an ancient grave in what’s now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion, but this animal friend wasn’t a dog, according to new research. Burial held skeleton of a type of canid that may have once…

Containership captain, cruise ship captain, drillship captain. All the same age.

Israeli scholars from various disciplines paint a painful picture of the foreign boycott that has afflicted them since the war broke out in Gaza
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Bodhisattva crossing the sea, by Kano Tan'yū, 17th century

#kanoschool

Here is F4U-5N 122189 in the next few months she will be moved by #WorldwideAircraftRecovery to the #FlyingLeatherneckAviationMuseum new home at Great Park, Irvine, CA #f4u #f4u corsair #usmc #marineaviation
#aviationsafari #aviationpreservation #boneyardsafari

That moment when you realize that many mornings you mutter “Reveille, reveillie; up all hands” as you swing your legs over the side of the bed. Then, looking at my pooches, “You, too, slackers.”

Michael Shingleton Mikey Adams The amount of forgiven student debt is TAXABLE as income in the year the debt is forgiven.

Got $100K in student debt forgiven?

Have fun writing that MINIMUM $22,000 check to the IRS.

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