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Bring back those beautiful rates!
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Sept. 24, 2013) – Gunners Mate 3rd Class Amelia Sandoval, left, and Gunners Mate 2nd Class Samuel Ervin perform maintenance on a torpedo tube aboard the Arleigh Burke-class...
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Warship Wednesday October 12, 2016: The sometimes frosty but always dedicated...
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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Non sibi sed patriae
241 years ago today, October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized a standing Navy. This force remained in being until 1 August 1785 when the last warship of the fleet, the 36-gun sailing...
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Strait of Bab el-Mandeb warming up as the Navy strikes back
ARABIAN SEA (Sept. 11, 2016) A Mk 38 M242 25mm Bushmaster chain gun fires during nighttime live fire gunnery exercises aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87). Mason, deployed as part of...
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Sardines and the Houth
One of three Type 021 missile boats purchased by Yemen from China in 1995. Photo via Chinese internet War Is Boring is reporting that the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which comprise some 20,000-strong...
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Star Wars, we are here
(U.S. Navy photo by Andy Wolfe/Released) CHESAPEAKE BAY, Md. (Oct. 17, 2016) Aircraft CF-02, an F-35 Lightning II Carrier Variant piloted by CDR Jonathan “Flopper” Murphy, attached to the F-35 Pax...
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Warship Wednesday October 19, 2016: Der Zerstörer von Uncle Sam
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Kittens, parrots and ambidextrous rate patches
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph # NH 57497 USS Alabama (Battleship # 8) Ship’s Gunner and Gunner’s Mates, summer 1903. Note the kitten and parrot mascots, the Chief’s pipe and the...
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Mighty Mo’s fire room
Via Battleship Missouri Memorial The four fire rooms aboard the Iowa-class fast battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) contain eight Babcock & Wilcox M-Type water tube boilers that operated at 600 pounds...
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Warship Wednesday October 26, 2016: The mighty midget with the most miles on her
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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Sea Hunter takes her TALON out to play
We’ve talked about DARPA’s 132-foot USV robot subchaser, the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV), dubbed Sea Hunter, a few times already this year. The ship’s projected $20...
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Back when the Navy had these things called “rates”
National Archives photo Caption: Two Sailors lean on a railing on the starboard side of the patrol combatant missile hydrofoil USS GEMINI (PHM 6) while the ship is in port. The GEMINI is part of the...
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IKE’s MARDET’s sidearms
Until 1998, platoon-sized Marine detachments were standard on deploying battleships and carriers (as well as cruisers and even some small gunboats through WWII). These dets served various...
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Tamaroa’s final cruise?
This image of the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa was shot one year before it would sail into the vicious Halloween storm to save lives. USCG Photo courtesy Coast Guard Historian. One of the hardest serving...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 9: The hardworking white hull from Beantown
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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More on the Proteus mini-sub
Huntington Ingalls Industries just dropped a new video hyping their swag prototype Proteus DMUV (dual mode undersea vehicle– they really need to fix that acronym) which they hope will replace the...
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Bougainville remembered
(Photo: USMC 63280. Colourised by Paul Reynolds. Historic Military Photo Colourisations) Official caption: BOUGAINVILLE OPERATION, November 1943. Cpl William Coffron, USMC, fires at a sniper on Puruata...
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Stormes at sea, 68 years ago today
USS Stormes (DD-780) coming alongside USS Leyte (CV-32) for refueling during Operation Frigid, 17 November 1948. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage...
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Fly me to the (super) moon and let me play among the stars
A few of the better ones that I have seen this week. My skyline was socked in by low altitude cloud cover and I got nothing 161114-N-PJ969-038 CORONADO, Calif. (Nov. 14, 2016) The brightest moon in...
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White House on Navy rate petition: Go pound sand
As you may remember, there was a We The People/Change.org petition to halt the wholesale scrapping by SECNAV Ray “I hate the Navy” Mabus of the Navy’s 241-year rating system. It garnered more than...
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