Those holsters, tho
Thowback Thursday from July 1943 Safety Nazi finds your lack of eye and ear pro disturbing. Original title and caption: “Weapons for WAVES, Norfolk, VA– This group of gun-totin’ gals is plenty...
View ArticleFrom the shadows and back again
Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward C. Byers Jr. is set to receive the Medal of Honor at the end of the month. He recounts the mission in his own words, above, taking time and making a...
View ArticleThe backup island (s)
Warisboring has an interesting report on Tinian, long a U.S. Territory/Dependency that makes up one of the three principal islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands just a few miles...
View ArticleThat stack, tho
Apparently boots go crazy for SOCS (SEAL/PJ/FMF/SW) Byer’s chest candy Via Terminal Lance, Max, you are the man. And of course, here is said salad bar: If you are still not sure what Senior Chief Byers...
View ArticleNavy to get more Archerfish
Big Blue is looking to get up to 1,000 additional Archerfish mine destructor vehicles (tiny, really maneuverable, slow torpedoes) for the AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralisation System (AMNS)....
View ArticleFinest in the Fleet
USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) out to sea in #7thFleet rare stern shot while underway, click to big up. Here we see a great stern close-up of the USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), the 46-year-old lead ship of her...
View ArticleSometimes, a trumpet is more than a trumpet
WaPo has a pretty interesting article on the efforts of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command as told through the horn of a Conn Trumpet. MATT MCCLAIN / WASHINGTON POST Shanna Daniel is part of a...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday: March 9, 2016 Blooming flowers for Agerholm
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...
View ArticleThe Extorp..
WATERS NEAR GUAM (Mar. 07, 2016) The Arleigh Burke-Class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG-85) fires an MK-54 exercise torpedo (EXTORP) over the port side during an anti-submarine warfare...
View ArticleMeet the new Echo Voyager unmanned underwater vehicle
We all live in a yellow submarine… Boeing’s massive 51-foot Echo Voyager, debuted yesterday, is an outgrowth of their 18-foot Echo Ranger and 32-foot Echo Seeker prototype testbed UUV’s– which were...
View ArticleCivil War blockade runner found off NC Coast
What is known is that it is an iron-hulled steamer and it’s believed to be one of three runners lost in the area 170 years ago Researchers and archaeologists from the Underwater Archaeology Branch of...
View ArticleGo Cold, Go Bold
For years the U.S. had a series of floating ice stations in the Arctic. These stations, supplied by icebreakers and long range aircraft, endured from 1952 to 1974 and the last abandoned one in...
View ArticleThe Quai Vat of the Plain of Reeds
In 1959 this chap by the name of Christopher Cockerell working for Saunders-Roe on the Isle of Wight came up with the first working and practical hovercraft, the “Saunders-Roe Nautical 1” (SR.N1),...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of John Falter
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday March 23, 2016: A stormy tale of colonial standoff gone wrong
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...
View ArticleConestoga, found
Modern painting of the USS Conestoga (AT 54) on its final voyage pounding through large waves during a gale off Southeast Farallon Island in March 1921. Credit: Artist Danijel Frka © Russ Matthews Col....
View ArticleIf you are struggling, call someone
In modern warfare, it seems that you know more veterans who have left by their own hand than by the enemy’s. I am leaving far too many coins on headstones these days. 1-877-927-8387 – 24/7 Veteran...
View Article375,000 tons of flattops, By the numbers
Image via Chris Powell shared Research Library, USS Midway Museum’s photo 18 October 1985: This congregation of carriers moored in numerical order from front to back at Piers 11 and 12 at Naval Station...
View ArticleMeet ACTUV
DARPA just released some neat but brief 360-view footage of their Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) including some of it underway at a good clip (27 knots). The...
View ArticleLooking to arm a brigade of insurgents on the cheap?
Hey buddy, got some 7.62×39? In a 31-day period between 27 Feb and 28 March this year, the Royal Australian Navy Adelaide-class frigate HMAS Darwin (FFG-04), French Navy FREMM-class destroyer FS...
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