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CPO Legacy Academy on USS Missouri on Ford Island
Battlewagons, Ford Island, reworking teak boards, goat locker selectees, what’s not to like?
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The gray ghosts of the Gulf Coast, 1964
“Sept. 13[1964] A RARE SIGHT—Aircraft carriers and battleships aren’t seen together at sea these days, primarily because all of America’s battlewagons are in mothballs. But two historic veterans of WW...
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DARPA looking at U-boat kites
During WWII, the Kriegsmarine’s U-boat fleet used about 200~ Focke-Achgelis FA 330 Bachstelze (English: Wagtail) aircraft. The FA330 was a type of rotary-wing kite that weighed about 150-pounds and,...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 30, 2015: The Deseret Battlewagon
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Navy bidding final farewell to the Buckeye
040303-N-6842R-025 Key West, Fla. (Mar. 3, 2004) Ð Lt. Allen Karlson, a student pilot assigned to the Tigers of Training Squadron Nine (VT-9), with instructor Cdr. Joe Kerstiens (USNR) sits...
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More Cold War icons, gone
The green service uniform, often derided as “the bus driver uniform” has finally been laid to rest after 61 years of approved wear, the vast majority of that stretch as the service uniform that...
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Hunley is clean again
For more than a century, the CSS Hunley rested at the bottom of the ocean just outside Charleston harbor, its crew entombed, its hull gradually encased in hardening encrustations. When it was raised 15...
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The glorious 1933 U.S. Navy
Gorgeous painting depicting USS Macon (ZRS-5) over US fleet about 1933. The carrier might be the Lexington (CV-2) if not, it would be the Saratoga, her sister. Macon was the largest airship of the...
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The Wall of Fire
Click to big up Two FA-18 Jets are displayed in front of the Wall of Fire during the Marine Corps Community Services sponsored 2015 Air Show aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, Calif.,...
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Happy 240th, USN
In March 1794 Congress responded by calling for the construction of a half-dozen frigates. And, once again, the United States had a navy. Although the Continental navy was later dismantled, October...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015: The great return of the hurricane Apache
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Navy deploying deep water search team for El Faro
With the loss of the container ship El Faro, the worst U.S. merchant marine disaster since 1983 when the bulk carrier SS Marine Electric was lost, the Navy is prepping USNS Apache (T-ATF-172) at Little...
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So long, Barry
Note the Capitol Dome in the distance Warship Wednesday alumni, the Forrest Sherman-class destroyer USS Barry (DD-933), which has been a fixture at the Washington Navy Yard since 1983, was closed to...
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A sinking Helldiver
“Mission Beyond Darkness” by Robert Taylor. “In the foreground the SB2C Helldiver of Lieutenant Ralph Yaussi, its tanks dry, has ditched near the carrier USS Lexington. As Yaussi and his gunner James...
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Saudis go big on LCS, err, make that FFG
Details of the $11 billion (with a B) Saudi Naval Expansion Program II (SNEP II) are trickling out and it looks like the big spender of the Persian Gulf is looking to get 4 (maybe 5 judging from the...
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Looks like they have it covered
151021-N-RZ218-043 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 21, 2015) USNS Apache (T-ATF 172) sailing to search for the missing U.S. flagged merchant vessel El Faro on Oct. 21. Apache departed Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct....
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 28, 2015: The Rime of the Ancient marine research ship
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Throwback Thursday, 82nd Airborne style
This week in 1983….The Invasion of Grenada pitting most of two brigades of the 82nd Airborne, 1st and 2nd Ranger battalions, a Marine MAU, elements of two Seal teams and other assets against 2200~...
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Swedish meatballs pressed into PCF use
ARABIAN GULF (Oct. 26 2015) Riverine Command Boat (RCB) 802, assigned to Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.7, conducts patrol operations in the Arabian Gulf. RCBs were originally used in shallow-water...
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Crossing the line
Crossing the Line, in which veteran Sons of Neptune, termed Shellbacks, initiate Pollywogs, sailors who have never crossed the Equator, into the Kingdom of Neptune upon their first time reaching that...
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