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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...

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From 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...

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The 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...

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That 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...

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Navy 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)....

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Finest 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...

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Sometimes, 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...

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Warship 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...

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The 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...

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Meet 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...

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Civil 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...

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Go 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...

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The 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),...

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Combat 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...

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Warship 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...

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Conestoga, 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....

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If 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...

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375,000 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...

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Meet 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...

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Looking 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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